Hallo, I new to EMC and before I start to work my self through the documentation and try to get it running with my machine Id like here your opinions:
Im looking for a solution to control a 4 axis CNC mill (3 axis router + rotator axis). At the moment the mill is controlled using Mach 3 running Windows XP. The mill is controlled by simple step and direction signals, it is connect to the PC by using two LPT ports. So I think it should be rather easy to setup EMC, right? The reason Id like to change the soft CNC is that Mach 3 slows down the machine dramatically on complex fine cuts with a large number of short G1 movements. Can I expect an improvement of the cutting speed by utilizing EMC? I think it depends on how good the tool path look ahead is. What can I expect from EMC running on a standard PC (3 Ghz Core 2 Duo, 2GB RAM, 2 PCI LPT cards)? I hope you can comment on my quite unspecific questions. Greetings Flo ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by: SourcForge Community SourceForge wants to tell your story. http://p.sf.net/sfu/sf-spreadtheword _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
