Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] Maxnc - don't buy it!

Thanks, Jon.

There is no excuse for that kind of negligence. Maybe that is why Dan took the link from Maxnc off of his website, or at least I
didn't see it the last time I looked. The TIMESET function works find on two axis', though it did not drive the third. The so-called
instruction manual says something about the Z axis requiring an alternative parallel port address. How that works is beyond me,
especially when the the pin out diagram indicates pins 6 & 7 are for Z step and direction. So I don't know what I have to do to get
it to work.

Anyway, I think that the lesson is clear, buy Maxnc at you own risk, in fact, don't buy it at all. What little I know of them is
that they are just another machine shop outfit that solved a problem for themselves and are foisting the solution, half-baked as it
is, on the rest of us. I don't care how well the program works for them, if an outside user can't use it, or has such bad
documentation such that an outside user can't figure it out, it shouldn't be sold. That is the definition of fraud in my books.
Sorry for the vitriol, but I am really pissed! I don't intend to ask for a refund, but will do my damnedest to keep other people
from buying it, at least until they get off of there dead arses and have some decent documentation written for it. So, every time
the question comes up about controller software you will see the "Maxnc - don't buy it" subject line appear.

Problem is, what is the alternative? Yeager, Kellyware - I need true 3D. Any suggestion?

Mike


Jon Anderson wrote:

> Mike,
>
> I know a couple folks that have offered to rewrite the manual, there was
> no interest.
> When I was running the Max software, it would accept any file extension.
> Nice to have an additional 3 characters to try to describe the file.
> Wish Ahha would implement this....
>
> Jon
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