"Andrew Baker" andrew@maine (like the state) . RR (like road runner)
..com wrote in :

The title of this post could also be called "how to turn a mostly
useless piece of crap in to something that can do work"

I recently started working for a small fabrication shop. The guy's got
a Gerber Saber router, and the only software they've got for it is the
proprietary crap that gerber shipped, geared towards sign shops and
meatheads that shouldn't own CNC equipment. I don't know if anybody's
seen it before, but it's horrible - ArtPath, EnRoute, Composer - the
worst kind of circa 1994 shareware-esque looking, hardware locked
garbage you've ever seen. I want to get this thing to operate on
G-Code! Short of de-braining the controller and running it off a LPT
port, what are my options? It's incredibly frustrating, especially
when the machine ruins a $700 piece of material.




crossposted to RCM more guys there are familiar with this type of set-up
and retrofit.





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Anthony

You can't 'idiot proof' anything....every time you try, they just make
better idiots.

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