On 10/07/2010 11:39 PM, Stuart Stevenson wrote: > Gentlemen, > We now have a shop full of EMC2 believers. I walked out into the shop this > morning and all three EMC2 controlled machines were cutting steel parts. The > Dahlih was making some blocks for a draw press. The Cinci was milling some > steel plates and the Enshu was milling some steel blocks. > I wanted to get some pictures of the Enshu cutting the blocks but 2 hours > later when I went out with the camera the job was completed. The job did not > have any tool changes so it was not a good candidate for a video. I don't > know what is going on it next. I will get a video shortly. > The Cinci is generating a lot of good feedback. One of our programmers > said this is the best machine in the shop. 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. > 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. We have a small cell set up for him. A manual bridgeport, a > manual lathe and the Dahlih. I would love to set an EMC2 controlled lathe in > his cell. > I have not worked on the G&L again - yet - I will get to it shortly. > EMC2 ROCKS > thanks > Stuart >
Please tell me Clyde at least gets bread and water in his cell... ;-) Outstanding Stuart! Maybe once I move out of Maryland to the upper midwest, I'll get a chance to come down and see your shop. You've done some impressive things! Mark ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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
