
If you buy a UC100 you can always flip back to Mach3 if you want or use UCCNC. Quite a few have converted to UCCNC from Mach3 now If you buy a UC100 for an extra $60 (or less if you buy it with a UC100 motion controller as a package deal) you can get UCCNC which is a development of Mach3 (similar but different ) that has a lot of benefits better than Mach3 where Mach3 left off. Make sure you buy a Genuine one from a retailer such as cnc4pc as there are a few fakes about that don't work so well with mach3 as some functions are internal within the motion controller such as jogging, probing, Torch Height Control (axis UP & DN) and M10/M11 which are all internal functions within the motion controller. However if you REALLY want Mach3, then you could but a UC100 from cncdrive available from a few locations such as: I would not recommend buying Mach3 for $175 as it is essentially obsolete and no longer being developed. You can download a version from here (it seems, not tried it)Ħ4 bit versions of windows will NOT work with Mach3 (as acourtjester said) with the parallel / LPT port. If you can find a Windows 7 licence number (any old laptop or PC should have a sticker on them you can reuse) You can use Windows XP to 7 providing your install the 32bit windows version with Mach3.


To get these make sure your Xbox one controller is plugged in and run dxdiag.

The Xbox One controller needs a little more work as the vendor and product ids must be set. This works and the plugin is not recognized. This installs a couple missing drivers needed by the plugin. Download and install the Mach3 Xbox 360 plugin.Īt this point if you start Mach3 it will abort the plugin as some important pieces are missing.ģ. I have done it so many times I wrote down my procedure.ġ. One issue was getting a Xbox 360 or Xbox one controller to work with Mach3. I have recently moved most of my CNC machines over to Windows 10.
