Re: [Emc-users] Linuxcnc vs Mach3 for Plasma Cutter?

2018-08-16 Thread Les Newell
ursday, August 16, 2018 12:07 PM To: Todd Zuercher Subject: Re: [Emc-users] Linuxcnc vs Mach3 for Plasma Cutter? I have a lot of customers running both Mach3 and LinuxCNC. Setting up THC with LinuxCNC is not very well documented so it is quite a bit of work. However once set up in my opinion it

Re: [Emc-users] Linuxcnc vs Mach3 for Plasma Cutter?

2018-08-15 Thread Marius Liebenberg
- From: Dave Cole Sent: Tuesday, August 14, 2018 5:03 PM To: emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Emc-users] Linuxcnc vs Mach3 for Plasma Cutter? Mach3 is now pretty old. Is there a legit license installed with the software? Oftentimes machines were shipped with a demo license only

Re: [Emc-users] Linuxcnc vs Mach3 for Plasma Cutter?

2018-08-15 Thread Marius Liebenberg
worst nightmare and that is one big reason I install Mach and then remove the menus once done. -- Original Message -- From: "Todd Zuercher" To: "Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC)" Sent: 2018-08-14 22:11:30 Subject: [Emc-users] Linuxcnc vs Mach3 for Plasma C

Re: [Emc-users] Linuxcnc vs Mach3 for Plasma Cutter?

2018-08-14 Thread Todd Zuercher
[Emc-users] Linuxcnc vs Mach3 for Plasma Cutter? Mach3 is now pretty old. Is there a legit license installed with the software? Oftentimes machines were shipped with a demo license only. (limited Gcode support) CandCNC used to sell a lot of Mach3 software with their systems. Go look at thei

Re: [Emc-users] Linuxcnc vs Mach3 for Plasma Cutter?

2018-08-14 Thread Dave Cole
Mach3 is now pretty old. Is there a legit license installed with the software? Oftentimes machines were shipped with a demo license only. (limited Gcode support) CandCNC used to sell a lot of Mach3 software with their systems. Go look at their site now. If it works... why change it?  Chances

[Emc-users] Linuxcnc vs Mach3 for Plasma Cutter?

2018-08-14 Thread Todd Zuercher
I don’t want to start a big Mach bashing. I just want to hear some opinions from those who have set up a simple CNC plasma machine with both Mach and Linuxcnc. Are there any inherent advantages/disadvantages of one over the other for a plasma cutter? Here where I work they just purchased a