- MACH3 AND CNC USB CONTROLLER UPGRADE
- MACH3 AND CNC USB CONTROLLER FULL
- MACH3 AND CNC USB CONTROLLER PLUS
You cannot run Mach3 with parallel port on W10/64 (it just does not work), so you are going to need an external motion controller.
MACH3 AND CNC USB CONTROLLER FULL
My limited experience of grbl is that it works ok within its limitations but the various user interface options available are very limited the UC100 works very well indeed and supports full Mach3 user interface functionality.Īdditionally, because the UC100 offloads the time-critical bits, it allows Mach3 to run on versions of Windows which do not use the PP. You could think of the UC100 a bit like a grbl board - it does some of the trajectory planning ("where is the machine going?") and pulse generation, but needs something else to feed it gcode. The UC100 is in current production with full support from its makers I've no idea what's inside the fake versions but they are notoriously unreliable. If you have a spare usb port, it's as easy as that.
MACH3 AND CNC USB CONTROLLER UPGRADE
The UC100 is designed the way it is so that you can upgrade an existing PP system just by inserting the UC100, and installing and configuring its Mach3 plugin. Again, this is an over-simplification but the general principle is correct. The UC100 offloads the time-critical bits of the job - the pulse generation - and leaves Mach3 to do the bits it's better at. Actually, the limiting factor is Windows, for various reasons, but we don't need to worry about that level of detail. Mach3 is OK for most of this, but can struggle with generating the precise timing that is needed for the various pulse trains to make a machine run smoothly at speed.
MACH3 AND CNC USB CONTROLLER PLUS
Plus a user interface and the various housekeeping jobs like homing, managing limit switches, etc. To drive a CNC machine, you need something to read gcode, analyse it, work out where the axes need to move, and generate several series of precisely-timed pulses to drive each axis. Yes, it looks like it is, but it actually has a lot of added intelligence inside.
It's not obvious from the outside but the UC100 is not a USB to PP converter. I'm a little confused now as I understood that the UC100 was just for converting the PP to a USB configuration !Indeed, that is part of the confusion.
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