Realistically, its probably much larger because not everyone who uses these controls will be one who frequently participates in Internet surveys on sites like CNCCookbook. It will be interesting to watch the evolution of these sorts of products.įor those with an entrepreneurial bent, a very typical thing to do would be to take Mach3’s 66% share plus the sometimes quoted figures that Mach3 has sold 60-80,000 paid copies and assume the overall market today for Hobby controls is therefore 80,000 / 66% which is about 120,000 units.
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Turbo CNC still runs on DOS, for example, while products like KFLOP are extremely modern and are full motion control solutions. This market is still very fragmented, with some old controls and some new. The group labeled “Other” is also larger than I would’ve expected, and I believe it reflects a crop of relatively new software that’s been hitting the market. I wish I had data over time in order to understand whether it was always this big or whether it has been steadily gaining share at Mach3’s expense.
I suspect most Mach3 users wouldn’t have guessed LinuxCNC was as big as it is. The hobby controls narrowly edged out professional controls by a margin of 8%:įirst up is a breakdown between the two big gorillas, Mach3 and LinuxCNC, versus everything else: While we’re picking up some new controls here and there, the percentages haven’t materially changed much from the first 100 responses, so it is time to summarize the results. As of this morning, we have 200 responses to our CNC Control Survey.
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