Again thank you Craig, for helping the noobs like me. Until I am ready to do some tests of my probe, which will be next week, I want to ask an off topic question.
A friend of mine is building different kinds of machines and he is going to build me a new cnc machine with my financial and physical help. The CNC will have forth axis - "A". I still want to be able to do measuring with probe, not that I had done any, but I believe I will. So me question is:
- Should I make the machine with mach3, because of the customization possibilities and the third party software that you can install on the windows pc, or should I choose something else.
He told me that we can use DSP, Syntec, Mach. He is more of a mechanic and less software guy. But he helps me a lot.
So to make it more clear. What controller should I use for 4 axis cnc and should I use mach3 or maybe mach4 just for the customization that I can always make, like the probing that we are talking here?
Hope that I wrote it understandable.