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MachPro => MachPro General Discussion => Topic started by: TOTALLYRC on January 27, 2026, 04:27:03 AM

Title: "Upgrading" from Mach4 to MachPro
Post by: TOTALLYRC on January 27, 2026, 04:27:03 AM
Hi All,
Long time no post!
I don't see it explicitly stated, but can I run MachPro on more than one machine like we do with Mach 4 or is it $550/machine?
Is there/will there be support for an analog controller?

Mike
Title: Re: "Upgrading" from Mach4 to MachPro
Post by: paul.stephens on February 03, 2026, 11:55:13 AM
Hi,

Current licensing structure for MachPro will be 1 License per machine.

There is currently support and planned support for the following motion controllers:
Vital Systems: Integra , EC01
PoLabs: Pokeys57CNC, Pokeys57CNCpro4x
Warp9: ESS
Trio: Flex6x
Kingstar: Kingstar Motion
Title: Re: "Upgrading" from Mach4 to MachPro
Post by: TOTALLYRC on February 03, 2026, 06:26:48 PM
Hello Paul,
Well that is not the news I wanted to hear. I don't believe any of those will do analog motion control and I have 2 machines that require it.
As of right now, I have one supported controller and 6 or 7 unsupported controllers running a mix of Mach 3 and Mach 4.
I will have to think long and hard about upgrading to Mach-Pro since a $1K-$2K upgrade per machine would be beyond my hobby budget.
If I were to actually start a business, things might be different.

As always,
Thanks for the information.
Title: Re: "Upgrading" from Mach4 to MachPro
Post by: paul.stephens on February 04, 2026, 09:10:45 AM
On the note of Analog specifically, you can manage that with an EtherCAT setup or with the correct motion controller. You can do a EtherCAT connection to a Beckhoff that will control your Analog 0-10v analog signals from something like a EL4002 Or once TRIO is supported, you should be able to add a P378 Slice for Analog Outputs to the motion controller itself. What's nice about the latter option is that the TRIO is a modular solution and it has a real time PLC built in.
Title: Re: "Upgrading" from Mach4 to MachPro
Post by: TOTALLYRC on February 04, 2026, 10:28:56 AM
Hi Paul,
I am looking for analog motion, as in +-10v analog to the servo drives, not analog I/O for feedrate override and such. If that I not available, then I would have to start from scratch on 2 of my machines, which at this point is a non-starter. I do realize that +- 10 volts is old school, but there are still a lot of drives out there that work and use this interface.

Thanks again.
Title: Re: "Upgrading" from Mach4 to MachPro
Post by: paul.stephens on February 20, 2026, 10:55:52 AM
Currently, we don't support the old analog drives on MachPro. We are mostly trying to push into EtherCAT systems due to their reliability, safety, and functionality. At this time, the choices would be a Galil motion controller or a competitor like Centroid. At some point in the future, we may get Galil as a supported or certified motion controller, but there is no current ETA for that.

Current drives supported on MachPro when doing positional movements.

Current drives supported on MachPro when doing velocity movements. (Like a VFD)
Title: Re: "Upgrading" from Mach4 to MachPro
Post by: brandonb on March 19, 2026, 07:33:38 PM
What about the CSMIO devices? The CSMIO/A is analog (+/-10V) and uses an ethernet connection to interface the mach 4 pc.

Is there any chance of it being supported by mach pro?
Title: Re: "Upgrading" from Mach4 to MachPro
Post by: paul.stephens on March 20, 2026, 11:52:32 AM
Currently no. I have reached out to the company with little to no response.