Hi,

  I have a 4 X 8 router I scratch built, A HF round column mill I 
converted, a small HF lathe with gang tools, a small HF mill, and a HF 
press brake/shear/ roll that I converted to an air powered brake with 
cnc back gage and an encoder to control bend angle.

  All the pictures I have posted so far are of my router and the baby 
mill on these CNC Zone threads.
http://www.cnczone.com/forums/showthread.php?t=37510
http://www.cnczone.com/forums/showthread.php?t=38310


  So that's my last year, compulsively building CNC machines with Ebay 
steppers and drives. I was using Mach3 with windows until I got pissed 
off at windows and tried out EMC2.

  I have spent the last month learning about Linux and have begun using 
EMC/Axis on the round column mill.

  Finally started cutting a part tonight. Spent a good bit of time 
getting the coordinate systems zeroed so I could actually cut instead of 
alternately plunging right through my material or air cutting. That's 
some fun and excitement right there, driving a 3/8 inch endmill right 
through an inch of aluminum.

At any rate, I have been enjoying the list and alternately loving and 
hating the learning curve!

  I am having some issues but I am slowly working them out, I think. One 
big issue for me is the Ubuntu Linux file system. I don't know where all 
the EMC files are.

  I was hoping to get some pointers on customizing Axis a bit. In 
Particular changing the layout and adding some more buttons.

  Thanks,
  Dan



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