Quote Originally Posted by Neale View Post
Be interested to hear how you get on with UCCNC. At least it's a supported piece of software, unlike Mach3!
There will come a time when even UCCNC and older controllers will be unsupported as technology/software PC's etc moves on. This is basically what's happened to Mach3 along with Art fennerty selling the company to Brian who took a different approach to development and marketing, a wrong one IMO.
That said Mach3 is still a very capable piece of software and the Cslabs controllers are high quality. Cannot really blame Cslabs for Mach3 or for not developing for mach3 anymore and they do fully support Mach4 which I'm told is much more robust that it was and lot of the bugs have been ironed out.! . . .I'll have to maybe revisit it.? They also have there own software which is still a work in progress.

Also on a side note and in Mach3 defense and to some degree Cslabs regards MPG's. It's no surprise that some are having problems when using MPG's plug-ins from other company's with Cslabs controllers. They do offer an MPG module that works perfectly with the controller and obviously they are not going to help or support another company's products at the cost of not selling there own, who would.? This problem is not a mach3 problem, it's the controllers plug-in who is in charge.!



Quote Originally Posted by AndyUK View Post
I'm slightly worried however by the multiple updates to UCCNC which are released without any accompanying release notes or change history. :( Feels like the developers are starting to get into some bad habits.
Why.? I don't get why people feel the need to update software just for updating sakes when they don't have any issues.! . . . . If it's working ok leave it alone.