CNC Colchester chipmaster

[Clive S]

Hi Clive
Could you elaborate on using PP without a mesa card? all the posts I read say that PP wont install without a mesa card.

Do you not need the control card to take some processing power off the main pc?

Ross I think I might have mislead you. When I said using the PP I meant parallel port You can use LInuxcnc with the parallel port and a simple BOB to do threading on the lathe with an encoder on the spindle.

I am at this time using just Linuxcnc with the axis front end. But I might have a go with PathPilot

But I am pretty sure you can setup PathPilot also with the parallel port and a simple BOB. Did you have a read at the link by cncbasher on the tutorials to set it up. Tutorial three mention setting up PathPilot with the PP.