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Mach Discussion => Mach4 General Discussion => Topic started by: joeaverage on September 11, 2026, 10:43:48 PM
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Hi,
I have recently bought a MachPro (18" mill) license, and have a few questions that someone may have encountered.
In the first instance despite having MachPro, and having bought a PC to run it, I'm reluctant to take my existing Mach4Hobby installation out of my machine. I depend on
my machine to make a living, and I don't want to commit to a solution that I've not had the time to explore.
1) With Mach4 on my development PC, I have the motion control (ESS) setup, but no ESS actually connected. When I fire up Mach4 I can decline to have the ESS connected and yet Mach4 will load
and display. Then I can write scripts or try various edits as I please. With MachPro however I have the ESS as motion controller but if the motion control is not actually connected and working MachPro
refuses to load and run, and therefore I cannot write scripts or otherwise experiment. It seems that in order to experiment with MachPro I not only have to nominate the motion control, but it has to be present
in order to load and display? This is turn requires I physically dig the ESS out of my machine just to get my new PC/MachPro setup to run. Is this correct?
2) 99% of my existing Mach4 experience, and tool paths are three axis, but I do have a small number of four and five axis paths as well. As a consequence I have selected wx6.set, or rather
a personalised copy of wx6.set as my screen set. That screen set has a few personalised tweaks to match my machine.
It would appear that MachPro ships with ONLY a three axis screen set. Is this correct?
Will a Mach4 screen set be recognised and run under MachPro? In particular can I export my existing copy of wx6.set INTO MachPro and expect it to work?
Craig