I like CNCPro on Dos. It taught me not to hate DOS :). The deveopment cycle of drawing a dxf file, making offset lines, exporting it into a gcode converter,...
I sort of agree with the "stay with dos" crowd. Even if you win the fight with programming real-time in Windows, you will need a lot of smarts in your remote...
I just noticed something today , I have a computer setup with Windows 95 and CNCpro , it was working fine but I decided to upgrade it to Windows 98 SE . Well...
Hello All, Can someone please help an absolute novice? Inspired by articals in MEW by Dick Stephen, I bought a Wabeco milling machine followed soon after by...
Terry, CNCPro does use *one* pin -per axis- for direction control. Another for step. Does that answer the question? RichD ... -- ~ ~~ ~ ~ ~~ ~~____~,~~...
Hi Ron; I mentioned this to a TurboCNC user today. He said something about a speed difference between W95/98 DOS and DOS6.22 . Perhaps there is something...
Hi Yes I'm running in DOS . I have another hard drive in the shop I'm going to drop in it and load with Win 95 to see if it goes back up . Ron ... -- Ron Kline...
Ron, Hi, I'm the TurboCNC user that Doug talked about and being curious, I tried a test. Test A: try to see the difference on my shop computer:{( To darn cold...
RichD, Sorry, I phrased my question a little clumsily. To clarify, what I was after was a means to convert the following type of parallel port output (or...
Terry, The setups in CncPro allow configuring the parport pins (bit settings). Pins 2-7 just need reversing. There are 4 pins available for outputs, your...
Hi All Just as an update , I have tried this again on several computers and found 95 and 98 to run at the same speed !! I don't know what happened the first...
I have been using CNCpro for years but last night was the first I ever had a need to use ACE . I used Turbocad to draw a simple 2D drawing ( an 8" X 10"...
Ron, I am probably all wet, but I think(?) it depends on the direction in which you drew the arcs?? Try it again and reverse the direction of the arcs and see...
I know there are people out there doing it but it hurts MY head to think about 5 axis . Too many years on conventional mills and lathes . PS . anyone know if...
... I think his last visit awakend him to the realization that cncpro is not going to make any more money. Mach is cheaper, Turbo is free and both are being...
Hi boys, I think we are all left alone. There is no development at all with CNCPro. Doug doesn't have the right ideas for us anymore. Let's face it. It's the...
snip ... I don't think we can force him to do anything ... but , maybe we could sweet talk him into releasing it to someone in the group that would understand...
... Yes Mach 2 is by far the best out there , I just started using Version 4 and Ver 5 is almost ready for release. The manual if fantastic. Many of the...
I have been told that turbocnc really took off when it's code was released. Perhaps this would happen with cncpro. Doug Harrison ... would ... would...
I was running mach2 on 400mghz pent. no trouble. I purchase a 1 gig. and haven't noticed a difference yet. Both were surplus computers from business...
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