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[mordy]

At the best of times it's a delicate process getting things dialled in and 'just-so' - I'm thinking that the software set-up you're proposing will add an extra layer of quirky behaviour that could have you going round in circles... And your nice clean MacBook will be filthy within hours..!

Good luck with it, whichever way you decide to go!

Wal.

Thanks Wal.

Poor MacBook it has a hard life in my shed, you reckon I should give it a break....

[Wal]

Poor MacBook it has a hard life in my shed, you reckon I should give it a break....

Exactly, pop a doily on it and use it as a tea tray. <...he types on his MacBook Air>

Wal.

[mordy]

Exactly, pop a doily on it and use it as a tea tray. <...he types on his MacBook Air>

Wal.

Mmmmm to carry out my Tea and Crumpets to the shed. (that would be my british influence)

Thanks Wal you made me laugh a bit.

[JAZZCNC]

Mmmmm to carry out my Tea and Crumpets to the shed. (that would be my british influence)

Excuse me we are British and it simply wouldn't be British to have Crumpet in the Shed.!! . . . We Do It round the Back of the Shed. .

[Neale]

Sounds like he's got a dirty Mac book in the shed already...

[mordy]

Sounds like he's got a dirty Mac book in the shed already...

Dirty as in "you dirty rat"
:)

[mordy]

Thanks again every body for your excellent advice, I now have my 4 axis CNC foam cutter up and running, and its fantastic, I am now building a 3 Axis table machine for cutting balsa and ply for my model aircraft. I ended getting a Gecko G450 and a UC100 motion controller, fairly expensive all up, but works so very well, (so glad didn't get the Cheap ebay stuff).

I am runnning Mach3 and UCCNC software in a virtual machine on my MacBook Pro (parallels), I generate all my G-Code (which was great fun learning about) with devFoam Wing for the 4axis Foam cutter and Sketchup with Sketchucam 'plug in' for all other stuff and for when I run my foam cutter in 2 axis slaved mode.

Definitely a great working setup for me, especially being able to run on my Mac. with no problems at all.



I made my controller box modular, so I can move it from machine to machine and as the Gantries on the foam cutter are adjustable in width, I just need to add or take away extension leads for the motors and home and limit switches.

Once again thanks very much guys.