A box for CPNC

Ron,

Take a look at http://www.simplestep.com/ for the intelligent driver boards
they offer. These look like they might be what you are looking for and
could be an alternative to FlashCut if they don't want to play in the CPNC
arena. I downloaded the software and manuals. The software is ok, but is
not what I would want in CPNC. The manuals, however, do provide information
on the command language and descriptions of all of the available commands.
The boards are smart and appear to handle the necessary step and direction
processing along with monitoring the home and limit switches. They can also
be used with an available QE board to provide position information from some
HEDS encoders. There appears to be a download for a set of communications
dll's written in Borland c++. If you download one of the manuals for a
board, such as the ssxyz manual for the 3 axis board you should have all the
info that would be needed to adapt your software to these boards.

I have NO connection with SimpleStep, I don't even own their product but I
am really interested in CPNC for a home shop.

John Guenther