Motion Controller - How to decide

[Cube3]

Will go and download UCCNC and the manual. See if I can get a feel for it. Not sure if you can run it in demo mode though.

Which Mesa board would you suggest? Why is it a hard sell?

Cheers guys

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[ngwagwa]

Will go and download UCCNC and the manual. See if I can get a feel for it. Not sure if you can run it in demo mode though.

Which Mesa board would you suggest? Why is it a hard sell?

Cheers guys

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It does run in demo mode. One thing that may not be obvious from the start is the Constant Velocity and Exact Stop modes unlike Mach3 you have control over the CV parameters, this took me a while to get my head round, there is a function to import your Mach3 settings as well. Also after changing any parameters you need to press enter to register them (though there is a way of turning this off). Another thing is it is pretty easy to modify the screen and move things around/delete them

[Doddy]

You can run UCCNC in a virtual demo mode (ie without a physical interface to any machine).

Mesa? Depends on your use case, I use a 7i76e to control three steppers and an analogue vfd... vfd is being replaced with a servo and the card is running with that in step/dir position control, but I’ve yet to integrate the servo encoder. Two hand encoders (low resolution), and more I/o than I can shake a stick at.

The hard sell is recommending LinuxCNC, no way as near polished as the pc software, but offered as you said non-pc based. Would recommend eyeballing that a long time before even considering buying the motion controller, as you might write it off immediately.

[Doddy]

And re-reading that I think I’ve confused non-pc-based with non-windows-based. If OP has no particular issue with Windows over Linux then I’d reiterate the support for UCCNC