Anybody on here have Parker Hanifinn AcroMill software on their
NC mill? If not do you know of anybody that has it?

Paul Lamar

"Kevin R. Walsh" wrote:

Paul-

I looked at the Acroloop cards and software, and while it looks nice, I
just can't just can't justify the cost.  I think I am going to go the
Linux route and use EMC.  In Arpil they are supposed to announce
support for many other motion control cards, so the choices will be
pretty wide open.  The CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO group on yahoo has a bunch of
info, or check out linuxcnc.org.

I've got my Bridgeport down in the shop now, so once I get linux up and
running, it should be pretty simple to start making parts...

Kevin

Thanks Kevin. Getting Red Hat Linux running now is a no brainier. Easier than
Windows since they added plug and play a few years ago.

Parker has a $1,500 half size PCI card which I thought was a pretty good deal.
I just did not like the Windows bloated and expensive $3,000 software.

AcroMill is DOS software and cheap at $1000. A command line single user
interface is all that is called  for when using the PC to control a mill. 
Simple to fix and reliable.

Paul Lamar
 
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