Hi,
You are correct, they can and do write plugins for their boards and is not only allowed but encouraged. As you say the more Mach plugins and boards
the better for NFS.
Several Chinese manufacturers have bodged Mach3 software in order for their controller to work. If you attempt to run their controller with a genuine and
licensed copy of Mach3 homing and probing fail. There are plenty of posts of this nature on the Mach3 forum.
If indeed Mach3 is written to be (broadly) compliant with that standard then the Chinese makers have departed from it....a backwards step I would have thought.
There again there are plenty of posts on the Mach3 forum about the faults/bugs introduced by pirate copies of Mach3.
XHC is the only Chinese manufacturer claiming to have a Mach4 ready plugin. If you follow the Mach4 forum you will know that the plugin is that buggy
that no-one uses it. XHC have been offered assistance and the SDK by NFS but XHC has for reasons of their own chosen not to partake. Consequently
the only Chinese made Mach4 ready controller is junk.
This is the first post in the a new thread, this poster is, or was at that time, an employee of NFS:
All 78 posts can be read here:
https://www.machsupport.com/forum/in...?topic=37291.0
So there is no doubt some issues creeping in with Mach3, it was written years before Windows 10. None the less with some assistance from Mach Motion
Mach3 continues to run on the latest builds of Windows 10.
Craig