JR1050 wrote: I have 4 machines running lcnc, it’s a great cost effective functional controller. I do hold it in high regard, the Numatix control is amazing. It’s insanely fast. Before you trash it, talk to the guys that the original engineer trained. The Numatix control was the brainchild of the same guy who did Sharona. His name was Gil and he passed, several l of his disciples continue with the control . Creative Evolution is one of them. The Delta tau guys can also help, that control is powered by a DT card. I owned a VMC20 for 25 years, it is severely under powered. Consider getting the Numatix up and running, that thing is more capable of anything Fanuc or Siemens offers.
Thanks for the insight, but I will not be using this machine to generate a large portion of my income.
Looking at the Creative Evolution website, shows the last update to the site alone is over 7 years ago. This is the first mention of their name to me, I know nothing of this company.
I don't want to throw my money to the wind with something that has no support, and at every turn it is more money with poor service (been there already). They give you a price, then when the work is done, it no better than it was before and they want 50% more than they quoted you to begin with. They keep the door from your controller, and the USB drive they tell you they send with setup instructions is nowhere to be found. The product may have been good at one time, but without service you have nothing.
I am a business owner as well as a consumer, so I get to see both sides of it, service and what it means to be of service. Where I come from if you don't fix the problem then you don't charge for it. Especially when the one contracted to fix the issue is supposedly the daddy of said product.
Being a technical person, I will use Linux CNC and the Mesa cards. I like learning, and also like programming, so it will make a good learning project. Who knows, I may start retrofitting more machines for resale if the conversions perform well enough. We already build common rail Diesel testing equipment from the ground up, but it is a limited market. Having something to fill the gaps that is interesting would be nice.
