Re: When will "acorn" release?
Originally Posted by
hoecken
I was seriously considering the Acorn controller But then I saw that I would have to buy the ultimate software for lathe and mill at $ 499.00 each , that's to much for a hobby.
I'll have to look for something else.
Look carefully, the software is included at no charge. The limitations that are likely to affect you the most on the free version are going to be:
- the number of tools (10 on basic, 200 on the others)
- Intercon blocks (20 on basic, no limit on others) A complex extensive part may need more than 20, I have not experimented enough to know.
- G Code file size (50K on Basic, 4M on others) I have done some fairly complex parts here at home and most were under the limit. The example of the tail stock bracket was 12K
- Simultaneous Axis Motion (3 on the basic, 4 on the others)
Those are the biggies as I see it. Unless you have a ton of tooling you want in the machine at all time or are running some real complex parts the basic version will do the job.
The basic version will do everything that a home machinist is likely to do IMHO
Beevo
Beevo - Arizona
Metal Deformationist