On 12/20/2010 04:12 PM, Igor Chudov wrote: > I had a chance to play with a Hurco CNC mill for about 5 minutes. > > The mill is nice and interesting, but I will mention one thing only, > regarding user interface. > > For jogging, it has a MPG for setting up jog speed, the plus and minus > buttons for setting direction, and X, Y, Z buttons to pick the axis to jog. > > On my mill, I have a Saitek P880 joypad. > > Compared to the Hurco interface, the joypad plainly RULEZ when it comes to > ease of use. I can jog all three axes simultaneously at different speeds and > do not need to use any wheel to set the speed, I can just push the > joyhandles, stornger or less strongly, and that changes the jog speed. This > is far, far better. And the most amazing thing is that the cost of this > joypad solution is only a small fraction of the cost of the Hurco's hand > control. > > i Igor,
Kinda depends on what you want - incremental jogs, jogs at different speeds or both. I have the best of both worlds on my machine, both an MPG for the incrementals and a joypad for blasting from one end of the axis to the other. It's nice to be able to jog (MPG) incrementally at .0001 when touching off. And it's also kinda nice to move my gantry from one end to the other (joypad) with a 60" travel on my X axis. Mark ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Lotusphere 2011 Register now for Lotusphere 2011 and learn how to connect the dots, take your collaborative environment to the next level, and enter the era of Social Business. http://p.sf.net/sfu/lotusphere-d2d _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
