Here we go...

My PM940 mill showed up about two weeks ago. Getting it up and running with Mach3 has been painful to say the least. The more I look around the more I see 7I76e and LinuxCNC...

I just ordered a 7I76e and will be starting my conversion next week.

Do any of you have a PM940 running this setup?
I am excited to meet everyone and share my findings.

Happy milling,
Joe

Well, we can't guarantee that setting up LinuxCNC will be any easier than Mach3, but the end result should be rather better.

Greetings,

Rather curious, what is a PM940?

Would you kindly post a link to this machine?

Cheers,

Dave

Its a Precision Matthews 940 cnc. It is the largest bench mill I could fit in my shop. I picked one a CNC version but had to wait four months for it. What led me to this mill is that it is CNC while still maintaining the ability to do full manual control.

www.precisionmatthews.com/shop/pm-940m

I asume that the CNC version comes with stepper motors?
Do you have the motor drives?

In fact, can you describe what comes with the CNC version?

Greetings,

Wrote to the distributor.

sales@precisionmatthews.com

They sent me a lot of photos and some PDF files.

Attached is an overview of the machine...

Cheers,

Dave