[Bristol, CT]

Programs like Mach3 are too techie and too complex for my users. Is there CNC program that let me create a custom user interface?

[Bubba]

While it is somewhat dated, if you get TurboCnc (DAK Engineering - Home of TurboCNC) and register it, you will get the source code which is written in pascal. You are free to customize it anyway you want. It is a dos program so it is fairly light in resources and just business on the screen. Don't even "have" to have a mouse to run it.
The owner Dave K, says he should have an update out soon.

[Bristol, CT]

Pascal would be way beyonfd my capabilties. However, looking further it appears that perhaps Mach3 allows one to create macros using VB, is that correct?

If so, could a custom front end be used to operate Mach 3 transparently?
Thanks for your help.

[Bubba]

I am aware that you can do VB scripts and I have a friend that has tried to implement Mach in a different manner. However the last time we talked, he was mired in the depth of the project and hadn't gotten to far! As I don't use Mach, can't comment much further.

As for pascal, I am NOT a programmer by any means, but I have been able to pick up enough of it to do what I want.