Hi,
Really I'd like the cncdrive uc300eth and uc400eth motion controllers to update their mach4 plugins for spindle sync
CNCDrive have had a Mach4 plugin for about a year. All reports are that its gone really smoothly and CNCDrive are to congratulated on
a trouble free introduction to the market.
They don't have much in the way of realtime controller support, lathe threading for instance.
Warp9 and the SmoothStepper is better placed.....backlash comp has been added over the last month or two and much of the underlying code
for lathe threading is already in hand. My understanding is that they elected to have encoder support rather than plain index support and also
PID control of the spindle. These very nice extras have delayed lathe threading support by several months.
Warp9 has a reputation for moving glacially on developing new features and have no doubt lost customers as a result. I for one could wish for warp one,
or even warp half speed!
PMDX have lathe threading well in hand.
Vital Systems Hicon is the pick of the bunch, lathe threading, THC etc. I guess the income generated from high value sales paves the way for feature development.
Craig