Originally Posted by
Ahamay17
We have 3 different machines being ran by Mach3 all have the similar issues...spindle failing to start would be the most common...it doesn't happen on the Torus Pro Server as often as it happens on the other two, but when it does the end result is far worse...on the two stepper machines stopping the running toolpath results in lost job coordinates if it is caught before the tool hits the work piece... On the Torus it seldom gets caught in time due to the faster rapids, sometimes it results in just a broken tool, but sometimes there is an error for lost data from the servos and job coordinates are lost as well as a broken tool... Also on all three machines random stopping in the middle of running a job with no rhyme or reason and no error message reported...on the Torus Pro Servo this results in Mach3 having to be shut down and the PC rebooted, and job coordinates being lost...Saturday evening this happened on the Torus Pro and once everything was shut down and restarted Mach3 began giving an error message and would not function...after searching for the solutions to get Mach3 back up and running, none of which worked, I removed and re-installed it and now it works as before but no longer recognizes my license even though the files were saved and replaced...I even went into my account at newfangled and had the license files resent, still stuck in demo mode, still waiting for solution from their support dept...
When I bought the Torus Pro Servo I seriously considered the Tormach PCNC1100 because it would have allowed me to get away from Mach3...in the end the work cube and rapids of the Torus Pro Servo won out by a long shot, but I so wanted/want to get away from Mach3
Ray