Is there in Millmage a support for Winpc-nc on a Stepcraft
I believe the LinuxCNC flavour of GCode will work with Winpc-nc - @JoeSpanier got any insights?
I’ve already tried that, and the program finds Com3 and Com4. However, the controls in the Move menu remain grayed out on both.
Ah, I might have been unclear - I mean to say that you should use the Winpc-nc software, and feed it code from MillMage - direct control with Millmage is not possible at this time.
Since I’ve been using Lightburn for almost 5 years, Millmage would be a logical solution. So I’ll continue using Fusion 360 (which I use for 3D printing) and WinPC-NC. However, I’ll keep an eye on Millmage; perhaps there will be support for it in the future.
Well if you’ve been using it directly with LightBurn then you should be able to in MillMage. I just don’t have first-hand experience with that controller is all.
What do you have it set as device-type wise in LightBurn?
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MillMage will not replace Winpc-nc for controlling your machine. WinPC-NC, much like Mach3, is a PC Control software that interprets the G-code and sends step and direction signals to a dumb USB breakout card.
MillMage, on the other hand, is a g-code sender that sends whole commands to a GRBL or other microcontroller-based CNC controller that interprets those commands and then turns them into Step/direction signals.
MillMage will still create G-Code programs you could import into Winpc-nc to run on the machine and replace your current CAM software. If you wanted to use MillMage as a control software you would need to replace the Winpn-Nc controller with something like the Flexi-HAL or another GRBL or preferably grblHAL-based controller.
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