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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!

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

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

Nigelo... Well played!!