Nice looking machine Chris! Do you have any other pics of it?. The Haas
machine with side tool changers work exactly like you describe, you look at
what pocket# the tool is in that you want and then go to a settings screen
to find the actual tool number

-----Original Message-----
From: Chris Radek [mailto:[email protected]] 
Sent: Friday, October 30, 2009 3:47 PM
To: Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC)
Subject: Re: [Emc-users] Has anyone ever done a Kitamura MyCenter/EMC
conversion?

On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 07:11:12PM +0000, kestreltom wrote:
> 
>  I have been eyeing these machines with the thought of converting one
someday. Has 
> anyone ever done an EMC conversion on a machine like this? Are the Fanuc 
> controllers completely inscrutable?

That looks like a "simple" 3 axis mill with an arm tool changer.  I
just converted a little VMC a lot like it.  Coincidentally it also
originally had a Yasnac control.  Mine is mid-80s, this is early-90s
era - not sure what the differences would be.

http://timeguy.com/cradek-files/emc/jr.jpg

I didn't have any particular problems with the EMC part. Unfortunately
I had to deal with a lot of defective parts that came on the machine.

I added support to the development version of EMC2 for tool changers
like this one that can only swap the spindle tool with a carousel
pocket (i.e. they can't put the old tool back in the pocket it came
from.)

I also wrote a new touchscreen-specific GUI for it.  That is also in
the future EMC2.4.

Chris

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