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General Mach Discussion / Re: Can Mach3 cope with two Z axis movements?

« on: July 15, 2012, 08:05:17 AM »

Thanks Hood,

I will have look for that. At least for now, I can continue to plan my conversion in the knowledge that it is possible.

Bob

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General Mach Discussion / Can Mach3 cope with two Z axis movements?

« on: July 15, 2012, 07:41:30 AM »

I'm just about to start modifying a 6 x 26 Knee milling machine for CNC operation. I intend to use mach3 eventually to control the stepper motors

The machine has a vertical Knee movement in the Z axis as well as quill movement in the same direction.
For small movements, driving the quill up and down is preferable but this will need to be combined with the movement of the knee for larger movements.

Can mach 3 cope with sending signals to two steppers that will act on the same axis?

Apologies if this seems a daft question but.....

TIA

Bob

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Mach3 and Small form factor PCs

« on: July 21, 2011, 03:51:50 PM »

Sounds hopeful then Hood!

Thanks

Bob

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General Mach Discussion / Mach3 and Small form factor PCs

« on: July 21, 2011, 03:09:44 PM »

I am just starting out in planning a CNC conversion of a small mill.

I don't have a lot of space in the workshop and so I'm thinking of buying a 2nd hand Dell sx280 which is 3Ghz P4 based machine with serial and parallel ports and would appear to meet/exceed the processing requirements of Mach3.
Has anyone used this Ultra Small Form Factor machine with Mach3 ?

Spec :  http://support.euro.dell.com/support/edocs/systems/opsx280/en/ug/specs.htm

My chief concern is that what ever the problem that Mach3 has with laptops (?) might also exist with these USFF PCs

Any help gratefully received.

TIA

Bob