Puruvesi MyCNC-ET7 Controller first look.

[Ozemale6t9]

Hi Neale...I only stumbled upon this forum today, and am interested in how you have found the setup process so far?

I have a small bridge-type CNC which has a dead motion controller card, and although the manufacturer still exists, cannot get any response regarding purchase of their latest card. So I am left with the option of finding an alternative and am considering either the CSMIO-IP/A +expansions or MyCNC-ET15.

The CSLabs option has so many pros (price, appearance, setup), but with the ET15 I'd be able to add extra axis at a later time. I currently have 4 analog servos (X,Y,Z1,Z2), and 2 servo-spindles (also analog), but a rotary table or trunnion table would be nice to add at some point. Also, the extra I/O options would allow for a custom control panel, should I go down that path.

My concern is with the overall setup and also customisation of the GUI. I've been playing with customising MACH4 (offline) and it seems relatively easy to do, but with MyCNC it may as well be Chinese (I don't have a clue about xml).

For the record, both Mach4 and MyCNC are new to me, so there would be a learning curve either way. It's a question of how steep do I want that curve?

[ivan-mycnc]

My concern is with the overall setup and also customisation of the GUI. I've been playing with customising MACH4 (offline) and it seems relatively easy to do, but with MyCNC it may as well be Chinese (I don't have a clue about xml).

Not sure if you've had a chance to read through this manual already, but our documentation website does go into quite some detail regarding .xml editing: http://docs.pv-automation.com/mycnc/..._configuration