New guy finishing off a mini mill build

[JAZZCNC]

I had Mach3 running on 3 different PC for around 5 years with absolute reliability, you obviously made the same mistake on each PC you tried! ;-)
The chap who bought my old CNC Mill is now using Mach3 with an external motion controller, he's very happy with it. :D

Don’t get me wrong it worked and I could make 1 or 2 or sometimes 10 or more of the same component one after each other then for no apparent reason it would lock up and stop on a certain line of gcode
You could stop the gcode and star it from the point of failure or from the beginning then it would lock out on a different line of code
Restart mach3 which meant rehiring then lathe and run the same gcode and it would be ok for a number of runs or maybe fail on the first run
Totally random
I moved to linuxcnc and never had any such failures. Same pc same lathe and control electronics just linuxcnc instead of mach3
This caused me so much frustration over the years

Paul


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You are both comparing apples with oranges.!!

Mach3 was and is known to be very flaky on the lathe side, for a Mill it's much more stable, but it still and always has done some weird shit for no apparent reason this is a known thing with mach3. Art used to try and nip these things in the bud ASAP but more often than not he fixed one thing and broke three more things, however since brian has taken over nothing got fixed and new hidden bugs have surfaced that will never be fixed. This is one of the reasons why I've stopped using mach3 and moved to UCCNC, it knocks the spots off Mach3 and is rock-solid stable.

[magicniner]

You are both comparing apples with oranges.!!

My current personal preference for Mill and Lathe is Siemens but the control package alone exceeds the total budget for most conversions