Re: CNC Control SW

I've been using CamSoft CNC Pro on my Bridgeport Discovery 300 VMC.

It's expensive, difficult to configure (IMHO, so bad it was I
considered trashing it many times), but once it's working it can
really make that table/z-axis fly! My machine is designed for 470
ipm, and I'm getting well over 700 ipm. It does "killer smoothing"
as well at a high speed.

--ScottLea

--- In CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO@y..., mark <mfraser@h...> wrote:
> >
>
> 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@b...>
> > Subject: CNC Control SW
> >
> > 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.