If they keep coming down, these controls may make more sense on a DIY CNC Project than it seems. It looks like they’re testing the low-end market. While these controls are expensive, lately I’ve seen controls such as the low-end of the Siemens line coming down in price in places like eBay. Industrial Quality Servo Drives, Home / Limit Switches, and all the rest really run up a hefty price tag in a hurry. Not only is the controller itself expensive and fairly hard to come by (though one does see them from time to time on eBay), but Industrial OEM Controllers expect premium sub-components too.

These are not very common for DIY projects due to their expense. Industrial OEM CNC Controllers are the ones used on Industrial CNC Machines like Haas. Types of CNC Controllers Industrial OEM CNC Controllers

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In this article, we’ll break it down along several dimensions each of which you can then drill down on further: The controller with its CNC Control Software and electronics are the most complex part of a CNC Machine. The CNC Controller or CNC Control is the package of electronics and software that take input either from g-code or the cnc control panel and converts it to the signals the CNC machine’s motors need to move the CNC axes.

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Tormach doesn't mention this DVD, but is it in fact important to load something from the DVD into the controller before expecting networking of the mill to work? The Networking Adapter came with a DVD of drivers. Notwithstanding all of that, the PP folders are not visible in Windows, and the Map Network Drive protocol fails. I left 'Available to all users' unchecked. I left the Mode at 'infrastructure' and the MTU at 'Automatic'. My home LAN is unsecured, so all I entered into the PP Network Connections page was the LAN's SSID. The mill is not especially far from my wireless router, and (for what it's worth) a 9-year-old laptop next to the mill has no trouble connecting to the LAN. The Tormach Controller BIOS has its network stack enabled. On the Windows machines, it is identified properly in the Device Manager. The Adapter blinks when it is plugged in to the Tormach controller, and it similarly blinks when it is plugged into either of my Windows machines. I just installed a 34705 USB Networking Adapter, and I am having a problem that may be the same as the one discussed a few months ago in this thread.

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