Re: Electronic Lead Screw & Power Cross Feed | Poor CNC ?

> If you will do your design on a napkin, of course, the difference is
> a lot more.
>
> Regards,
>
> Tom
>

Tom, your email has eloquently sold me one more time that I do not
want CNC at this time. As you say, if I want to run a CAD/CAM program
anyway, I should go CNC. This is particularly true if I will be
making more than one copy. If I want to do my design on a napkin, I
don't want all that overhead. Many of us who like the e-leadscrew are
much more interested designing one offs on napkins. Everything I've
made to date is in that category and everything I foresee making
anytime soon is the same.

I believe we have successfully established that people with CNC
already under their belts have no interest in an electronic
leadscrew. Why are we surprised at that conclusion? OTOH, I
downloaded the Mach docs the other day thinking I'd just read about a
couple of those wizards before nighty nite and maybe it wouldn't be so
bad.

COME ON GUYS! It's a zillion pages. I mean really, it's an awesome
program, but I do not need the complexity at this stage. I've got too
many other irons on the fire already. I'll get to it eventually, and
I would like to see any leadscrew work I do be set up so I can have
both someday.

BTW, I was extremely pleased to see Mariss' remarks about his ratio
command in G-Rexx. As usual, he has engineered a first-class solution
that will be useful for many things. His docs were also much shorter
than those for Mach--no slam on Mach, he's just building appliances,
which is what I want as I have mentioned.

Best,

BW