Stuart Stevenson wrote: > One of my partners came in my > office today to tell me the Cinci had circle interpolated a (I think) 4 inch > hole within .0005 round. Neither man is easily impressed. I will get some > pictures of the parts. > Ahh, pictures won't show .0005" accuracy! This is after your 5-axis kinematics fixings? That is quite awesome. I can't get better than .001 to .0015" on my Bridgeport due to some flex in the ballscrew mounts and such small deflections. > We moved the Dahlih into the main shop. Clyde, the machinist that ran the > Dahlih in the back shop, wanted us to move it to the main shop so he could > run it there. Clyde is not a CNC operator. Clyde is a crochety old manual > machinist. He likes the Dahlih. He was very skeptical at first. When he saw > the keyboard (the gui is AXIS) he turned up his nose. His finger now fly > over the keys. Old dogs CAN learn new tricks, but it is harder than it used to be. But, when there is REAL benefit to learning, it is worth it.
(Still can't stand those singing servos on the DahLih, though, that whine would drive me nuts.) Jon ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Beautiful is writing same markup. Internet Explorer 9 supports standards for HTML5, CSS3, SVG 1.1, ECMAScript5, and DOM L2 & L3. Spend less time writing and rewriting code and more time creating great experiences on the web. Be a part of the beta today. http://p.sf.net/sfu/beautyoftheweb _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
