Flo, that machine is not cheap and is precision it uses a Heidenhain controller so it has precision feedback (it will use Heidenhain scales ) and you can get great information about how rigid it is from DeckelMahoGuildemeister the bearing around the whole B axis is impressive, it will take the cutting forces Please keep us posted with this projects progress that is one sweet machine tool tomp
On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 1:00 PM, Florian Rist <fr...@fs.tum.de> wrote: > 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 > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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