I have two Tormachs that are being used in a instructional setting. None of the students have ever used a cnc mill or with some even a manual mill before. Because of this, the idea of a travel limit seems to elude most of them. And hence, I am getting called over constantly from other work to fix the "broken" machine. I want this to stop and software limits are a perfectly reasonable solution
I am going to use the backdoor for Tormachs software so I am able to implement software limits, however before I fax in my lawyer sheet to Tormach I would like to know what the problems are with using software limits. I have been using them on my own machine for three years and have never had a problem. Nor can I find any mention of the rumored problems through google/yahoo/cnczone search. Only Tormach has stated there is a problem and will not say what it is.
Soooo, what is the problem and how much of a problem is it. Thx