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General Mach Discussion / Re: Running 2 instances of Mach3 on same computer to control 2 machines

« on: April 02, 2018, 05:09:52 PM »

Thanks for the responses. I'm surprised this isn't possible.

If you read the Mach3 minimum system requirements from this page: http://www.machsupport.com/software/mach3/, it says it requires a 1 GHz CPU and 512 MB RAM. My computer has four 2.8 GHz cores and 32 MB RAM. I don't see why I shouldn't be able to run 2 copies of Mach3 and cut with 2 machines at the same time from the same computer.

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General Mach Discussion / Running 2 instances of Mach3 on same computer to control 2 machines

« on: March 31, 2018, 04:04:20 PM »

Hello,
Is it possible to run 2 instances of Mach3 at the same time on the same computer, in order to control 2 different CNC machines over a network?

I successfully created 2 different Mach3 profiles for the machines, and I'm able to operate Mach3 correctly for each machine individually by loading the appropriate profile. But I'm not able to open more than 1 instance of mach3.exe (nothing happens).

I've tried copying the Mach3 folder into a 2nd location, and opening that 2nd copy of mach3.exe, but still nothing happened.

Is there any way to do this?

Thanks