CNC Control SW

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Well, CNCPRO works for me. It should allow you to program max speeds
and accelerations to the physical limits of your setup, and perhaps to the
speed of your PC. Runs in DOS, does constant contouring, and I'm told by
others on the list that it outperforms Indexer LPT by some margin. It was the
collected wisdom of this group that convinced me that there was just one real
choice at the time I bought, and I'm still very happy. You may wish to try the
demo at yeagerautomation.com; I wouldn't overlook Art's program, or even
the free TurboCNC. Another point is the code you feed to it - if it's doing a
whole lot of speed and accel stuff before it gets fed to the controller, it could
be the limiting factor..... /just a happy CNCPro user / mark

> Date: Mon, 3 Dec 2001 22:13:11 -0800
> From: "Donn Busby" <donn@...>
> Subject: CNC Control SW
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> I'm really frustrated with the speed my cnc cuts at. I'm just guessing, but I think it probably tops out at 50ipm or some such and much slower through the curves of a 3d cut. I also have Indexer LPT HPGL controller and it seems to cut much faster, but I'm doing full 3d so I gotta have G-code.