My mill uses a Pokey for pendant and a PMDX416 for motion. I have used the PoKeys, and the smart BOBs PMDX from PMDX as well as the ethernet smoothstepper. There are several available in the hobby range. It does require a hardware motion controller. If you are into reading manuals there are several documents in the installer- install the demo and look under Mach4hobby\Docs. It uses LUA as the programming language, a very complete and powerful language. The ability to make great screen sets is all there. It has built in screen editor, screen elements have all the modern screen widgets- pulldown list, scroll bars, tabbed dialogs, just about every windows function. The design of the software is extremely well done. Motion is smoother, feed hold is instant. The industrial customers do not post to forums or mail lists. He has many OEM customers and there are many sales out there- the hobby guys seem to think its new and no one is using it yet. He has hired a few guys for development and support so he is selling where the real money is. Mach4 does not have a big presence in the hobby world because Brian is working the industrial world. I wrote some of the M3 wizards and the NfsMill wizard package. I do have a close connection- I work for Newfangled, Brian Barker, doing the wizards and support. I have been using Mach4 for a couple years now.
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