Would they sell this bare bones? Since it wouldn't make much sense to pay for the control and then not use it. If they want a sell, ask if they can sell it with a Simodrive 611U instead of 611D, the 611U would take analog inputs and then emc2 would have no issues making this work with mesa cards. And you would get to keep quality drives/servos. Tell them what you try to do and see how far you can talk them out of a complete machine. I would think they make more money on their machine than the control and if they are a competent builder, they should be able to sell a control-less machine with the digital drives replaced by Siemens' analog drives. Obviously i am applying an highly idealistic "Kunde ist Koenig" thinking, but if i had the budget to get a well build new machine w/o control and add emc2 to it as means of ultimate budget extension, to go from 3+2 to full 5 axis control, i would go for it. EMC2 may have made this thinking even worse, i want my cake and eat it too now.
I sure hope our lathe emc2 conversion works out well, because taking emc2 to the mills would be even more interesting....I like mills more than lathes :) 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
