Mach3 Parallel Port Driver Download and Installation: Step by Step Instructions

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I use mach3 with my 30 X 30 Longmill. So far I have had no problem.I am using RnR controller, but had to do extensive research initially for the settings.I am not new to mach3, but have been using it for about 8 years, which is the reason I went this route . The RnR controller is USB and 4-axis (does not use parallel port and are the ones I am using . There are other USB controller cards available. Some less spendy and some more, some 3-axis and some more.

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The 6040 CNC machine comes in 2 flavours: parallel port and USB. I don't have a parallel port on the laptop I wasintending to operate it with, so I chose the USB option. This is possibly a "mistake" as the USB option usesa proprietary USB interface board which is only compatible with Mach3and therefore only compatible with Windows. But now that I've got it set up with Grbl, I think I prefer this system towhat I would have with a parallel port controlled by LinuxCNC.

I understand that Mach3 normally works by writing step/direction signals to the parallel port. The USB interface board that comes with the 6040 CNCmachines has a driver that Mach3 uses to speak USB instead. LinuxCNC also normally works by writing step/direction signals to the parallelport but there is no Linux driver for this proprietary USB thing.

The LinuxCNC forums are full of people tryingto operate USB machines with LinuxCNC and being told that USB is not a sensible way to operate a CNC machine because USB is not sufficiently real-time.I disagree. I think LinuxCNC and parallel ports is not a sensible way to operate the machine because Linux is not sufficiently real-time, USB or not. Inmy opinion, motion controlshould be offloaded to a microcontroller, and then the PC doesn't need to pretend to be a real-time system, which is exactly the way Grbl does it.Grbl is a motion control system that runs on an ATmega328p (e.g. an Arduino). It takes G-code over USB serial and writes step/direction signals to the GPIO pins. 2ff7e9595c