Hello,
I've been asked to evaluate if EMC2 can be used to control a double carriage gantry machine that it's being built. The machine has 5 axes. I tried to design a diagram: http://www.privatepaste.com/7dQN52pZln The X axis might in fact have two motors. I did a research in the archive and it seems this gantry axis setup is supported. Y1 and Y2 will share the same rail but have independent motors and limit switches. Z1 and Z2 will be set up at the beginning of the workflow and will stay at a fixed height until the end. It will have stepper motors and encoders for all axes and a bunch of I/O for coolant, buttons and a few other things and a couple of pwm out for spindle control. I should be able to influence the development a bit, so if there's anything that would make it easier to use it with EMC2 I would love to hear it. I've been suggested to use the 5i20 I/O card.. I guess that with a couple of them I could do just fine. I've read they support EMC with drivers so I feel like I'm willing to buy their products in exchange. I'm also planning to write the code to use an USB jog/shuttle device for manual axis control, if it's not already supported. I chatted with some kind folks on #emc and it seems this kind of setup should work with EMC2, but I need to be sure before giving the go-ahead to the guys that will build the machine. I would also have to do most of the development without the real machine, would the "axis" software be able to simulate it? I hope to receive some input from you all and will look forward to give my contribute to the project. Thanks in advance -- Best regards, Alessandro Zummo, Tower Technologies - Torino, Italy http://www.towertech.it ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. It's the best place to buy or sell services for just about anything Open Source. http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;164216239;13503038;w?http://sf.net/marketplace _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
