Great Dane excavating co.

[JAMMER]

Hi DB do not get a laptop to run your mill if you do you will be unhappy with thew results I tried that my desk top has an 8 core with 60 gigs of ram in it it's fast but some times it isn't fast enough. I do cad on it and transfer it to the computer on the mill witch is a lot smaller. Ed

[Cooper]

Originally Posted by JAMMER

Hi DB do not get a laptop to run your mill if you do you will be unhappy with thew results I tried that my desk top has an 8 core with 60 gigs of ram in it it's fast but some times it isn't fast enough. I do cad on it and transfer it to the computer on the mill witch is a lot smaller. Ed

ed, the mill has its own controller or computer, the computer I use is my desktop that was a cheep home computer, nothing special. I use it for the design and cam generation only. copy to a usb stick and take over to mill and load it to mill computer. sometimes I have noticed the mill controller may not show the correct numbers in the dro field, but that only did it when I had a program with over 300,000 lines of code. program ran fine, I think it was just a display issue.

as far as the computer issue I know my inexpensive desktop is not up to the task of the assembly files I have in fusion 360. so that is where I am , shopping for a more powerful computer to use for design and cam. and now that I have some knowledge of this cnc stuff I realize most of my time is spent on computer, the part I don't like but as I said before when its mill time I stay and watch like an amazed little kid!!