Hi, I need a new machine for (rather light, no heavy machining of cast iron or stainless stsel) 5axes simultainus milling in research and development and education. Since I'm on a short budged I start thinking about getting a cheep 5axes machine, not capable of 5aces milling by default, but equipped with strong enough servos and good encodes on the aces rotary axes and then replace the 3+2 axes controller by EMC (capable of 5 axes interpolation).
One of the machines that might be used for that conversion the the DMU DMG eco 50 (haven't verified it the rotary aces hardware is strong enough, yet) : http://www.dmgecoline.com/de-DE/30-dmu-50-eco So, what do you think, would EMC be able to keep up with the Siemens 810D controller? In terms of features, especially on-line programming, it certainly doesn't, but I don't need these features. All the programming, simulation, collision checking etc, is done off-line using CATIA, HyperMill, SprutCAM or self made CAD-to-CAM scripts (no collision checking her, hu...). Is anyone using EMC on a new 5axes machine? The basic question I guess is would EMC be able to provice the same tool path quality as the (lower end) Siemens or Heidenhain controllers? See you Flo ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net Dev2Dev email is sponsored by: Show off your parallel programming skills. Enter the Intel(R) Threading Challenge 2010. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-thread-sfd _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
