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Evidently, it's got a DMC2132 controller card in it. I got it to talk to the slides finally yesterday, but I'm confused one the whole ports & pins configuration page. I downloaded the "User manual" from the Galil website and for the most part, understood everything that it was asking me to do to configure the motors and whatnot. I am just a little confused though in the "Limit \ Home" tab. It shows that All the axis use Port #1 and then it shows what pin #'s to use. Well, on the Mach3 page where you configure that, at the bottom it says that only pin#'s 10,11,12,13 & 15 can be used. If that's the case, then why does the manual tell me to use other ones? There's also a few other things in the same tab I don't understand, but I just want to clarify them one at a time. Any advice or help would be great appreciated.
  You all have already helped me out a ton! :-)

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I noticed that the instructions for the Galil plugin state that the file should be a m3p file or whatever. Anyways.....the only file besides a .pdf is a .dll file. If I just copy that into the "Plugins" directory in the Mach3 folder....will that still work?

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Hello,

  I recently purchased two Newmark ET-2000-11 slides and an NSC-G3 motion control box brand-new. Anyways, they say to use Galil Tools software. I need to be able to turn a simple 2D profile into X and Y CNC movements simultaneously so there's really no practical way that we can program them longhand line by line using that software. I see this plugin for Mach3 but I have no idea how or what to do after I load the software and the plugin. Also, the laptop is Ethernet so I don't know if that's an issue too?
  I'm basically starting from scratch.   
Any help or information would be greatly appreciated. BTW, I am fluent in G and M coded programming and have been in the CNC Applications field for over 17 years now.

Thanks,

NB

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Will do Overloaded. Thanks for the info. I've purchased a few high-end CNC machines now, (mill/turn and 4 & 5 axis mills) but I am totally blown away at how much stuff there is out the for the hobby "do it yourself'ers" and the little guys. It's hard to know exactly what to purchase. I'll figure it out though...sooner or later.
Thanks again everyone. :-)

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Oh ya.....I just thought of one more thing. The laptop I bought for this only has an ethernet port....no RS232. Is that going to be a major problem? I was reading about some ethernet issues with Mach3 and also something about a "smooth-stepper"??? Is this related to Mach3 not having much Ethernet support? Are they even related?

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You guys are awesome! Thanks!

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Yah, I was afraid of that. I'm going to see if I can return it. Is there any controller out there that you would suggest? Also, can I still use the slides at least? They just have the two cables coming out of each end. I think one's the motor and the other is the signal??? I figured that if I bought a really nice controller then it would be no problem setting up and programming but I'm finding out that's not the case. It seems like Newmark doesn't even want to help me or give me any real support either. I called them yesterday and they were just like, "Well...I think Mach3 works with it. You'll need to call them."

Thanks again for the info and the help guys! :-)

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Hood, here's a link to the manufacturer of the controller and slides I bought.

www.newmarksystems.com

BR549.....tell me ur not serious!!! If that's the case...I'm out $3500.00!!! Surely there's got to be an easier way to program this. I guess I just assumed that as long as you had the slides and the controller....u could use pretty much any language to make them move. NO GOOD! haha

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Hello,

  I recently purchased two Newmark slides with stepper motors and a 3 axis simultaneous motion controller (nsc-g3). I need to set this up via ETHERNET because the laptop doesn't have RS232. Does anyone know how to get this to work with Mach3? Do I still need to use the Galil tools software? ANY HELP WOULD BE GREATLY APPRECIATED. BTW, I am fluent with CNC and G & M codes. I just have never actually built my own CNC machine before. We're playing around with making a simple 2-AXIS diamond wheel dresser.

Thanks,

NB.

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