Re: Beginner question regarding Controller.

Frank Frank <ffrank@s...> wrote:

> Can anyone recommend a cost effective controller, perhaps even a

good used one?

For cost effective controller - DOS Based controler like Turbocnc
(USD20 with sourcecode) www.dakeng.com

There will be more than one list members who have cooked up their own
controller and if you ask I think you may even get it free.

But DOS based controller works best if working from a pure DOS
environment so you will have to sacrifice Windows controller, but
they can produce quite fast feedrate.

There are many others a bit higher up the cost ladder like Art's
Master5 (windows)

www.artofcnc.ca (from memory)

If you want something very user friendly there is that very user
friendly Flashcutcnc from
www.flashcutcnc.com
which can be a bit pricy but a pleasure to use. If you choose not to
buy, I think you can still use Flashcutcnc to generate G-codes and/or
use it to verify your programs.

Incidentally, a user/fans discussion list for flashcutcnc had just
recently been formed at

groups.yahoo.com/group/flashcutcnc

BTW I just put a link to that list in the [Links] section

Peter