Hi.
After playing on a friend's machine and reading lots of articles and practising on trial editions of lots of programmes I suppose I'm learning stuff, but in general terms.
The specific problem that bamboozling me at the moment is postprocessing and using DSP.
So I do the machine path by picking the post processor from a list, calculate preview and save the toolpath on a usb and run it using the Rich Auto AR51.
How do the specific postprocessor the DSP, and the machine model 'fit' together?
Is the DSP strictly neutral? I mean will it run any gcode on any machine or does it have formatting and other factors of it's own that need attending to?
What are some of the factors machine specific factors that affect postprocessing? I know there is a variety of file extensions but I have no idea why.
I'm worried that all my time & effort learning stuff on my friend's machine is going to be useless if I eventually buy something else.
Is that a reasonable concern or is it a setup issue that is not too onerous?
Thanks,
Rob.