Hi All,
Long time no post!
I don't see it explicitly stated, but can I run MachPro on more than one machine like we do with Mach 4 or is it $550/machine?
Is there/will there be support for an analog controller?

Mike

Hi,

Current licensing structure for MachPro will be 1 License per machine.

There is currently support and planned support for the following motion controllers:
Vital Systems: Integra , EC01
PoLabs: Pokeys57CNC, Pokeys57CNCpro4x
Warp9: ESS
Trio: Flex6x
Kingstar: Kingstar Motion

Hello Paul,
Well that is not the news I wanted to hear. I don't believe any of those will do analog motion control and I have 2 machines that require it.
As of right now, I have one supported controller and 6 or 7 unsupported controllers running a mix of Mach 3 and Mach 4.
I will have to think long and hard about upgrading to Mach-Pro since a $1K-$2K upgrade per machine would be beyond my hobby budget.
If I were to actually start a business, things might be different.

As always,
Thanks for the information.

On the note of Analog specifically, you can manage that with an EtherCAT setup or with the correct motion controller. You can do a EtherCAT connection to a Beckhoff that will control your Analog 0-10v analog signals from something like a EL4002 Or once TRIO is supported, you should be able to add a P378 Slice for Analog Outputs to the motion controller itself. What's nice about the latter option is that the TRIO is a modular solution and it has a real time PLC built in.

Hi Paul,
I am looking for analog motion, as in +-10v analog to the servo drives, not analog I/O for feedrate override and such. If that I not available, then I would have to start from scratch on 2 of my machines, which at this point is a non-starter. I do realize that +- 10 volts is old school, but there are still a lot of drives out there that work and use this interface.

Thanks again.