Gantry Style CNC Router Part 3 L@@K

**Captainleeward** · Oct 8, 2016, 08:00 PM

Gantry Style CNC Router Part 3 L@@K......3 1/2"-10 TPI NEW LEAD SCREWS ALL FINISHED.

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**Christophe Mineau** · Oct 11, 2016, 03:27 PM

Waooo, good progress !
Looking forward to seeing it at work !
It will be powerful, I'm sure.
Well done Captain,
see you
Christophe

**Captainleeward** · Oct 12, 2016, 04:59 AM

Thanks Christophe, but there is a lot to do before I can get it to work, electrical system, still working on the software to operate it. :O)

**pfredX1** · Oct 16, 2016, 01:30 AM

What are you working on with the software?

**Captainleeward** · Oct 16, 2016, 06:47 AM

Hi pfredX1, I am learning Mach 3 soft ware to run the router so many drop down windows.

**pfredX1** · Oct 16, 2016, 08:49 PM

Ah, Mach3. The other CNC controller. I use LinuxCNC myself. Mach3, and LinuxCNC are both forks of the same NIST EMC code base. That's something not many folks know. They're a lot different now though. Personally I don't see why anyone would shell out money for abandonware, as opposed to running the same thing free, and open source. Well, like I said, a lot of folks just don't know.

In life what you don't know does tend to cost too. The LinuxCNC configuration Wizard is pretty straight forward. There's no menus. Just a succession of windows, with forward, and back buttons. Stepper Configuration Wizard

**Captainleeward** · Oct 17, 2016, 07:48 AM

Thanks good info but I have win 98 on my other computer which I run a sign making machine and intend to use for this build so Linux is out of the question. but thanks for the info and your reply.

**pfredX1** · Oct 17, 2016, 07:30 PM

Linux is out of the question, yet you still run Windows 98? Now that's the very definition of out of the question. I thought the yo-yos still running XP to support Mach 3 were loons. You take the cake though.

**Captainleeward** · Oct 17, 2016, 08:51 PM

Yes I am a loony tune for keeping my $2000k software by still using windows 98.

**pfredX1** · Oct 18, 2016, 06:36 AM

I think you're loony tunes for buying $2,000 worth of software in the first place. Go get a copy of this and see what free software can do F-Engrave Why, it even runs on Windows. Although frankly I don't know how well that version works. I just run the Python script in Linux. Although it only accepts certain format images. So you will have to know how to do file conversions. That may be a bit technically challenging for you? I use this free software to convert images to a format that F-Engrave can handle https://www.gimp.org/ Just use the export feature it has.

I use a completely free tool chain here and it works well enough for me.