Hi,
I did the migration about 6 months ago, surely you heard me, I live in New Zealand but I was swearing REALLY LOUDLY!!!, lol.
Mach4 is pretty much ready to go for milling/routing. If that's what you do then you'll be cutting chips in no time. If you need custom
features to run your programs and Mach3 had a lot of 'fruity bits' built in after so many years development then you'll need to code those.
The real power of Mach4 becomes evident when you go to customise things, what you can achieve is limited by your imagination only.
LUA coding is a large part of that. I thought at first Artsoft had made a mistake in that choice....but now that I've learnt the rudiments of
LUA coding and the power it brings...its brilliant, light years ahead of Cypress Enable.
As Stuart I use an ESS. To make the most of Mach4 an external controller is the way to go. I did buy the Darwin PP licence but never got round
to using it, the Ethernet driven external controller runs so sweetly.
Craig