I think I may have found that my problem is actually caused by running on too slow a machine. I'm trying to run on an old 300MHz laptop that used to run Mach2RC6 perfectly, but I suspect is having problems with Mach3. It works better if I run from the 'Diagnostics' screen (lees overheads?), but still graunchs occasionally.
Guess I'll have to use a faster machine, but my Dell 9300 doesn't have a parallel port
I'm in the 'lazy' camp, having used solidworks and real cam in the past but now just wanting a simple 2 1/2D from DXF route. I just used the output that Lazycam gave me. Out of interest, Lazycam seems to do the first pass of a circle at height of 0 (top of material) before plunging for subsequent cuts.
Anyone know of a USB or Cardbus parallel port adapter that will work with Mach3 for my notebook, or do I need a real parallel port?
Thx