Hello to all,
trying to see if this is possible to do in the MACH screen.
I have 2 slide rails that have  (X axis) and (Z axis,).
what  I 'am  trying to achieve.   On the MACH screen instead of having the normal  X,Y, Z,and A AXIS on the control display,
I can make it were it has X,Z AND X,Z that way I can program 2  slide rails  with 2 motors  using Mach 3.
hopefully this made some kind of sense, this is just something I am trying to see if I can program 2 slide rails with one controller.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

4 axes total? Mach3 or 4?

Hi,
you can modify Mach3's screen...but its not particularly easy. You can also use two motors on one axis, its called a 'slave motor'. It can be done in Mach3, but it
it is not quite straight forward as you might imagine, but it can be done.

Mach4 on the other hand do both of these things very VERY much more easily.

Mach4 has a built-in GUI editor which allows you to adapt any screen set to your particular machine and then save it as your own screen set.
Mach4 allows up to six axes with up to five slave motors on each axis!. It can also couple and de-couple slave motors form the master motor
programmatically, at will, so you can devise any number of sophisticated schemes to synchronise or 'square up a gantry'.

If you have not purchased Mach, either Mach3 or Mach4, then I would recommend Mach4. All development and bug fixes on Mach3 ceased eight years
ago. Mach3 still works and many people still use because they are so familiar with it, but whatever bugs/shortcomings Mach3 has its stuck with.

Craig

thank you so much for the explanation!!!
I am using mach3.

Since I purchase mach3 license, do I have to purchase a new license for mach4?



thanks again

Yup!

Hi,
Mach4 is an entirely new product and does not share any code with Mach3.
There is no upgrade path from Mach3 to Mach4.

Craig