On 06/09 07:52 , Mark Browne wrote: > Does anyone on the group have any experience with Linux CNC? > > http://www.linuxcnc.org/ I've played around with it, along with a machinist friend. it installs pretty easy; we didn't get around to attaching it to an actual mill while I was there tho. basically there are a couple of different layers; it's pretty well-designed on the whole. there's a program that reads g-code and operates the parallel-port interface(s) to run the machine tool(s). I can't remember the name ATM. this is pretty much the universal part of it all. then there's a number of different front ends, like xemc, TkEMC, AxisEMC, and others, which give you a nice front-end GUI to operate it. I kind of liked AxisEMC (http://axis.unpythonic.net/) myself; but others are more lightweight. (you don't need a fancy gui if you're just doing repetetive work). -- Carl Soderstrom