CNC/NC

One of my medium computer literate friends had rigged up a system using a single serial port and a switch box to his shop. But all of his code was commercial. Autocad with addons at the top of the food chain, and several support translator programs added on. Costs a fortune for software but he did a lot with a little in terms of having to get custom hardware rigs, or his own programming. He made more money programming in CNC language (which he could do by hand) to pay for the high software costs. I guess programming a PC to multiply the return is a good way to go too. I have been looking at Acramatic controls because they are Microdata 1600 based (900 series) but not much else. The ones I'd like to get hold of of that type would not need a machine attached, since I have other firmware to run on them. Jim Roger Holmes wrote: