Hi,
sorry if my comments offend...they are my own opinons only.
The norm with Mach4 is that you take the basic program and GUI and modify it for your use.
You know this to be the case because you had to program your machine to suit your needs. That is the common
(normal) story with Mach4, I did the same. Following your posts over that time I would guess you found it a challenge
at times but you stuck with it and got a result.
There will be others who will not/ cannot or refuse to invest that effort. For those people I would recomend either sticking
with Mach3 or one of the other software solutions, Mach4 is likely to make them very unhappy.
One of the recurring gripes by hobbyists about Mach4 is that the documentation lags the current state of the
software, often by quite a bit. You might ask 'why NFS would ignore what seems like a straight forward request
by users?'.
Over the same time that these complaints about Mach4 have been raised Mach has released G31.1, G31.2 etc, the all new
PMC facility,the all new (and light years ahead of Mach3) probing facility and as signaled by Bryanna a new Teach module
coming. It is not that NFS are not doing stuff, its just that they are doing development rather than documentation.
My contention is that NFS are working on those items which are most likely to attract the customers they need to survive.
I don't believe for a moment that NFS intends to slight hobbyist users but they need to concentrate on those matters
which result in useful sales. No matter which way you look at it the sale of one Industrial licence to an OEM is worth
seven times what I paid as a Hobbyist.
While it might be that I as a hobbyist I get less service from NFS I nonetheless commend them and the strategy of
securing OEM sales, I benefit as a spin off of those new developments. Even hosting this website is supported by sales...
in absence of sales the forum goes and that would be a shame.
Craig