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Not exactly true about linuxcnc needing a parallel port or two
You can use linuxcnc through a mesa board in any pc with a spare pci slot and as such don’t need the parallel port however cost are...

I made my own
Basically a 6mm ball bearing silver soldered on to a piece of silver steel about 2” long
The other end is threaded m4
It screws into a piece of brass bar and the brass bar is bonded...

Great that you got it sorted

Paul


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Mark
I can open the file in space claim but it is massive
I’ve tried all the setting that I understand but it will only reduce to 1.47 gb (from 4.7gb)
I saved it as a obj and an stl file both...

I have a fairly meaty pc and use space claim which will open and save obj files
Let me have the link and I’ll try it for you

Cheers. Paul


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I would think trip reset buttons for various thing
Maybe axis movement is one. Spindle / cutter rotation would be another

Paul


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I made another attempt using ‘etcher’ to copy the mint iso to a pen drive
All very straight forward to use etcher and the pen drive worked perfectly even on the
HP pc that previously did not like...

What you will find unless you have a very large budget and equally large workshop space is that there is always a need for a larger machine because of a certain job
I had this issue for some years...

I can confirm that when you start the pc with the mint iso from either a pen drive or dvd it does not install mint instead it loads mint and lets you look around and run linuxcnc but will not save...

It works perfectly Bernie, just doesn’t like booting from a pen drive
Give it a dvd with the iso on it and it was as happy as Larry
It just took me some time to find my box of blank DVD’s. The mrs...

I could not agree more Doddy
Every time I think I understand linuxcnc configuration I realise that I don’t
But I am getting there and the linuxcnc forum is excellent

The stepconfig wizard gets...

Update on the HP small format PC that Bernie kindlt sent me - it may help other
I have spent all evening trying to get linux to see two parallel ports

There is one onboard from the motherboard...

The foam insulation material in about 50mm thick is ideal

Paul


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I see no reason why the post processor would be different between the 190 260 & 300 vmc
They are all just larger versions of the smallest 190 machine
The addition of a tool changer would add...

Ya the hdd will have been wiped so the pc doesn’t see a boot manager which is normally part of the windows install
When you load linuxcnc it will then provide the linux boot manager and all will...

If you have the boxford software and it’s all functional then maybe not
I’ve never tried the boxford software myself. I was told it was about £600 and the boxford would deal with educational...

Seconded on mint 19.3. Been using it on my vmc190 without issues. Linuxcnc v2.8

I’m actually running linuxcnc v2.9 something on the orac lathe but that was trying to get a usb pendant to work,...