Re: What is wanted in a controller,

It all comes down to engineering.

If Bridgeport spends time and money paying engineers, mechanical,
structural, electrical, maybe even civil, to develop a product then
they want to sell it and it is poorly designed, they get a bad rep,
if it works, and works well, it becomes a standard.

So, yes, duplicate good standard designs, there are reasons they work
that you might not find out until that first cut.

Also, I am too old (45) to considder going back to work in a shop,
but if you learn standard G-code and you have a problem, almost
anybody can help. If you use some odd variation of html then you can
only rely on a very few people to help you out.

remember, a design based on sound engenering principals has the
POTENTIAL of being a great machine, but a machine based on a poor
design will only work well if it is extreemly well built, and then it
will have inherent flaws.

my 0.02 cents

Dave

ps: it's not even 5:00 am in ca, what are you doing up Bal. ?

--- In CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO@y..., "ballendo" <ballendo@y...> wrote:
> Alan,
>
> YES.
>
> Ballendo
>
> P.S. I've been tooting this horn since I joined this list. (and
> trying to help those who had not seen/used a REAL control. And
> pushing for "standard" gcode usage; in the same vein)
>
> --- In CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO@y..., Alan Marconett KM6VV <KM6VV@a...>
wrote:
> > I've never seen a "Real CNC mill" (well, maybe just a little at a
> > trade show), so TRUE, I don't know what it looks like and how it
> > operates. But then, I haven't been trying to "duplicate" an old
> > mill controller (perhaps we should??)!
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^