Does anyone know how I go about transferring my Mach4 license from my development machine computer to the one I will use on the finished machine?

dan

If you purchased your license on line at Machsupport.com you can log into your
account and go the license maintenance page. It will have a place where you
can paste in a new PCID and get a new license. Make sure your email address
is valid so you get the email with the license.

If you purchased your license from a reseller, contact the reseller for assistance.

You are allowed to have up to 5 valid licenses. If you have licenses that are
for machines that no longer exist, you can disable them on the same page.

Steve Stallings
www.PMDX.com

Thank you. 

Any thoughts on a SFF pc that seems to be a good choice?

Hi,
Mach4 is not a power hungry application, just about any PC will run it fine.

I bought a dual core Atom based mini-ITX PC some years ago (still running Mach3/parallel port at that time)
with 32bit Windows 7. It uses onboard graphics and as the saying goes...'couldn't pull the skin of a rice pudding'.

I've been running that same PC with an Ethernet SmoothStepper and Mach4 for five years, all without problem.
The only time I notice that the (guttless) little Atom struggles is if I load a largish program, say 5-10Mb, it will take
a minute or so to load and draw the toolpath but thereafter its fine.

My advice is that unless you regularly load large 3-D files say, don't waste your money on a powerful PC, you don't
need it, a cheap and cheerful little PC like my Atom will run just as accurately, smoothly and every thing else.

I haven't tried one of these, but they appeal to me, 4G RAM, 64G eMMC, Windows10 Ent with runtime activation for $209:

https://www.dfrobot.com/product-1585.html

There are a number of these small single board PCs out there, and if they run Windows10 (ie all of them) then they'll run
Mach4 no sweat.

Craig

Craig:  Wow!  I forgot i've had a Panda for a few years now and have never used it.  Forgot all about it.  I may look into it.  From what I remember, the one I have works from a SD card, so I may have some issues related to that.  I will look into it further.  Thank you very much for the reminder.

Charlie

Hi,

this may appeal, 8G RAM and 32G eMMC but no Windows activation  for $267:

https://shop.udoo.org/udoo-x86-ii-ultra.html

Craig

Hi,

There are a number of these small single board PCs out there, and if they run Windows10 (ie all of them) then they'll run
Mach4 no sweat.

That is imprecise, most of the single board PCs out there are ARM Cortex based and run Linux or Android OS's.
Clearly Mach4, being a Windows app, will not run on such boards but will run on any board that CAN run Windows,
ie X86 based boards.

Craig