ok doing cad cam on a Mac
can I use a pc laptop as a dedicated cnc screen.?
work stage design -toolpaths- on my Mac then send to either gender or millmage sender and cnc ? does changing from Mac to pc create a problem???
Not sure if it’s the same with MM, but this is how it works for me with LB. Design on Mac and old PC is connected to the laser machine, the file is transferred over LAN or mail or USB stick… works fine.
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Light burns goes strait to laser machine in my case a thunder 100w
Difference is mm sends to a sender eg gsender or , well millmage sender on a dedicated laptop, or MacBook , so yeah see it as very different! Cheers
Not sure if this is helpful, but I have one Laser and one CNC machine, and both are connected to a single iMac via USB. LightBurn and MillMage are installed on this iMac. There is no need for any other g-code sender, since MillMage controls the CNC just fine. This works for me since all 3 machines are in the same shop, and relatively close together.
I do my design work in another room, on a different iMac, and just export a PDF to a shared folder. I then import into either MillMage or LightBurn on the shop iMac, and set up the jobs as needed.
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