Hi,
I did see the Vital Systems though. Seems a lil pricey
I agree however they are excellent devices and highly thought of by their customers.
Like no one has created any plugin or written code for this?
No, excepting Vital Systems. Given the price of the HiCon it should not come as a surprise that Vital Systems have the budget to
invest in their device to insure that it is fully functional.
Warp9 TD have been rumbling about THC support for sometime. Regrettably their rumbles take a long time to come to fruition....but they
do eventually.
There was a suggestion that Mach could do it by using an override axis. Mach4's instruction loop time is pretty smart, of the order of a few ms, or about
ten times faster than Mach3's instruction loop. That would be pretty lethargic for highspeed (genuine realtime) THC (such as the HiCon) but would be adequate
for many users and be VERY much less demanding on controller manufacturers to implement. Have not had any confirmation from NFS.
I have seen Warp9 TD (ESS), PoKeys (57CNC) and CNCDrive (UC300) all claim that they 'couldn't possibly support THC until Mach does this that
or the other'. BULLS*********T! It would make their job easier to implement THC if for instance NFS added a THC screen to Mach but its not impossible
in its absence...as proven by Vital Systems.
This thread is a few weeks old and OP seemed sure that PoKeys had Mach4 THC support, you'll note that I'm skeptical, it may be worth a PM to OP
to find if indeed PoKeys have Mach4 THC support.
http://forum.machsupport.com/forum/index.php/topic,38744.0.htmlIn the mean time have the owner of the ESS hassle/badger/abuse Warp9 TD to get it together. I've been asking for two years.....and have promoted
the sale of three HiCons over that period of time because the ESS just can't do the business.
Craig