I recently acquired an old Starrett manual CMM. This machine has linear encoders and a Renishaw touch probe connected to some ISA bus cards in a 486 PC running OS/2. The system is currently working, but I'd like to get it going with a more modern PC. Starrett would be happy to fix me up - for about $17K. I could just use a virtualbox OS/2 installation on an industrial PC that still has an ISA bus, but I'm thinking that EMC should be able to do the job.
I just need to read the encoders, do math on the numbers (three linear axes and two rotational on the probe), and have a fairly simple user interface to guide users through touching off points for diameters or surfaces. I think I should be able to do this with the parallel port or at most a Mesa card. Anybody tried this or have advice? Thanks, -- Ralph ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Start uncovering the many advantages of virtual appliances and start using them to simplify application deployment and accelerate your shift to cloud computing. http://p.sf.net/sfu/novell-sfdev2dev _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
