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Originally Posted by GreyingJay
So your definition of "industry" is desktop based design and manufacturing?
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Let me put this out there:
I own 3 MaxNC machines with Mach3 software that came with them. Why? I wanted a desktop mill out of the box large enough to teach CNC and do limited runs on soft materials. I bought these for beginners in my makerspace
These machines are closed loop steppers. In the electronics on the machine is a PIC that measures the quadrature encoders and retries steps up to 8 times before failure. I can increase the axis power just by replacing the steppers with cog belt reductions, motors with encoders and LinuxCNC. Just like I replaced the spindles, spindle mounts and made new custom encoder mounts.
A great place to start out hence I bought them to help people who are trying to learn. I use a ShopMaster Patriot VFD at home post 2012 model. It has Mach3 and LinuxCNC. I got that machine from a new Haas owner.