One PC for two separate Acorn Boards (mill and lathe)

[Colt4587]

Basically the title there.

About a year or two ago I converted a lathe over to CNC with an acorn board, bought the pro license and had it going. One divorce and a new place later, and I'm getting that lathe setup, and I've also converted a mill over to the acorn board (from another CNC board). I have a mobile computer base, and the lathe and mill will be right next to each other. Currently I have two user profiles on the same computer, one with the lathe installed, one with the mill software installed. Will this work? If need be, I can add a separate SSD and dual boot two separate windows installs. Or what would be the best way to go about it?

Thank you!

[Nigelo]

Separate profiles will work perfectly with either Mill or Lathe running at a time but not simultaneously. With this arrangement, only 1 acorn board can be powered at any one time and each needing its own license.

I run a Mill and a Router using a similar arrangement through a switching router and handle the switch over using batch commends.

Note that I simply don't have the physical space for 2 CNC PCs between my machines - I guess that Gary Campbell will still let his Cousin, Bruce Kent out of the box

[Gary Campbell]

I guess that Gary Campbell will still let his Cousin, Bruce Kent out of the box

Nigelo... Well played!!