RE: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] USB options ...

HI Lester,

It's a good question. I use the USB version of the smooth stepper. I'm
running a stable version of MACH and the USB driver and my only complaint is
that the motor tuning doesn't work. One of these day's I'll ask on the
MACH site if there's a solution to that.

I'm sure I'll have a supply of PCs for quite some time that can run either a
parallel port or have USB. I don't have any expectations or need to move up
to MACH4.

Had I the time I'd be considering moving to the LinuxCNC version but that's
more because I really don't ever want to move to WIN8 which smells to much
like VISTA to me and cost me hundreds of hours of lost billing and
productivity. However, the last time I tried Linux the learning curve for
everything was just as bad hence for now I'm still with Windows.

Now if Alibre (Geomatic), Protel (Altium), Freescale (CodeWarier), Codewrite
(Discontinued), MPLAB, Lightroom (Adobe) and a lot of the other applications
I use on a weekly basis ran transparently on Linux I might consider it. For
that matter if MACH ran with the USB SS on Linux one could run Linux on the
workshop PC. Since there is WINE, for Linux, has anyone tried running the
USB or Ethernet SS under that?

John

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> Subject: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] USB options ...
>
> What is the current consensus on the various USB motion control options?
> While I've not had any problem with parallel port via Mach3, the move to
> 64bit versions of windows block that path, and while the ITX boxes I've
> been using will run later versions of 32 bit windows, XP was/is still
> the best base for non-net connected systems?
>
> I'd been seriously considering a USB option, but it seems a number of
> these are now being phased out because of 'the susceptibility of the USB
> port to interference'. It seems that Ethernet is now the preferred
> channel to a co-processor motion control system?
>
> The CNCUSB board I've been running from a recycled laptop seems to work
> without any problem and I was about to roll that out on the Taig Mills
> I've just had delivered, but the board is no longer available.
>
> Is now the time to make a concerted effort and move to LinuxCNC or cough
> up the extra for an Ethernet option?
>
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