I don’t know anything about Mach 4. ?I ran Mach 3 on a Chinese CNC router for a couple of years with an old Windows desktop running Windows 7 and using the parallel port. ?I experienced lost steps and max feedrate problems. ?Last year I upgraded my system with
a SmoothStepper connected to the Ethernet port on the same old desktop computer bypassing the parallel port. ?Fantastic results. ?Recently I took an older laptop running Windows 10 and loaded Mach 3 and the SmoothStepper software and started using it to run
and check programs I create in V Carve Pro before running them on the CNC machine to weed out problems before cutting material. ?I have also used the laptop to run the CNC machine. ?Everything works fine.
The SmoothStepper solved all of my problems and my cheap Chinese machine is running great. ?The SmoothStepper comes in either an Ethernet config or USB and doesn’t care what Windows version, XP, 7 or 10 you are running nor what type of computer,
desktop or laptop.?
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On Nov 18, 2019, at 6:39 AM, phill005 <
phill05@...> wrote:
Sorry for not being clear, I have an old system computer running win xp on it and before it die's on me I was thinking would this be the right time to change over to Mach 4 and I understand 4 needs to be?registered on one computer,the controller
box only has a?parallel port bob what would be the best way forward.
I did not know you could run Mach 3 on a laptop with win 10.
Phill??
