What works with AL and AE and what doesnt?
Posted: Sat Sep 09, 2017 2:34 pm
I have received a few emails and forum posts asking whether particular software controllers and control boards work with AE. Since I cannot test every combination, I decided to make this post to ask what your setup is and whether AL or AE works for you?
Some of the questions are answered on the FAQ page: http://www.autoleveller.co.uk/faqs/ but I am particularly interested in anyone with any unlisted controller such as UCCNC or a beaglebone board etc. and whether you can get AE to work for you and if you needed to work around some issue to do so.
From what I know:
Some of the questions are answered on the FAQ page: http://www.autoleveller.co.uk/faqs/ but I am particularly interested in anyone with any unlisted controller such as UCCNC or a beaglebone board etc. and whether you can get AE to work for you and if you needed to work around some issue to do so.
From what I know:
- Parallel port cards have fewer/no issues compared with USB ones
- LinuxCNC works
- TurboCNC works with AE but AL will need some tweaking first. For advise on this and any other TurboCNC questions, Art Eckstein "Country Bubba" is the man to ask.
- Mach3 works (if you have a USB card, you may need to write a macro to get the correct probe results, see the FAQ page for more on this)
- Mach4 also works but again you will probably need to write a macro, see FAQ page for more
- GRBL doesnt work off the bat but if you can find some control software to record the probe results to file, then it should work with AE