Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] Re: Reality Check for CNC mill

> I too am gearing up (quite literally in fact) a CNC mill, and I noticed the
> comment about a 400mhz Pentium as being small for Mach1. Is that still true
> even if you don't need to use the toolpath updates, which eat up lots of cpu
> overhead? The reason I ask, is because my testing of Mach1 so far on my
> 233mhz laptop running 2000pro seems to work fine - except when I refresh
> the toolpath during RUN, of course, which we are warned not to do in the
> author's notes, whereby it RESETS. Am I unrealistic in thinking this
> machine will be fast enough?

I run my plasma table with MACH1 and MACH2 on a Pentium II 333 with
128MB Ram and it works fine. The display slows a little bit when I put
the look ahead up to 200 on complex parts but I have had no problems.

YMMV.

Chris