I'm a KipWare user. You will have some difficulty when it comes to
cutting radiuses or circles. They only true post is a "Faunc
compatable" and it doesn't produce either an I or J for a radius
cut. Mach2 requires I or J other. You can fix this by buying their
gcode converter ( I forget the actual name).
Jeff E.
--- In mach1mach2cnc@..., dholness@a... wrote:
I'm a registered user of Mach1 and I'm now onto Mach2. I'm in the
process of
completing my second mill a 1985 south bend knee mill 10 x 54 with
ball screws
on all 3 axis for my home shop. running gecko servo drives. I was
looking for
software that I could use to run the machine in a conversational
mode.
Although I use vector cad cam from Fred at IMser to create art to
gcode.
I'm now trying to configure a post in KipwareM program from
www.kentechinc.com
to match mach1/2. I've made a few basic runs nothing fancy with
the program
seem real easy to used. just select the type of machine
operation, fill in the
blanks and out comes the code. Then I just load the file into
mach2 and run
the part.
The software even has a dxf converter that will take the drawing
and covert
to G code.
Just would like to know if anyone else on the list is using this
program?
