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General Mach Discussion / Now using Master5, should I upgrade to MachX?
« on: December 16, 2005, 04:06:27 PM »
I am an old Master5 user (three years or so), on a home-built plasma cutting table, like a big plotter. It is 2 axis only, I run the vertical axis motor manually.
Question: Besides operating on a Windoze XP platform, is there any advantage to me to upgrade to one of the Mach packages? One thing I would like is to have cutter compensation built-in, instead of having to pre-process for compensation. Does MachX do this? What other neat stuff am I missing using the old Master5? Which version of Mach do I want to start with?
Thanks for any hints, suggestions, opinions.
Question: Besides operating on a Windoze XP platform, is there any advantage to me to upgrade to one of the Mach packages? One thing I would like is to have cutter compensation built-in, instead of having to pre-process for compensation. Does MachX do this? What other neat stuff am I missing using the old Master5? Which version of Mach do I want to start with?
Thanks for any hints, suggestions, opinions.