>>Saying that they are reluctant to use cnc control software, which is >>considered to be a hobby level solution, is saying just a little.
I replaced an Allen Bradley Series 9 CNC control with EMC2 on a commercial waterjet machine made by Jet Edge last year. The customer thought that they blew the USB ports on the PC so I visited them yesterday since the machine upgrade is still under warranty. (The computer was fine, some USB connectors external to the cabinet had become corroded - the environment is corrosive) The engineering manager told me that the Jet Edge machine retrofit was the feature of his yearly equipment report to the company board. He said the machine performs much better than it did when it was new. The machine runs 1-2 shifts per day, 5-7 days per week depending on demand. It is automatically fed with a conveyor system. The four waterjet nozzles actually cut over a chain conveyor so the cut pieces can be automatically conveyed out of the machine. The system is very reliable. Properly applied, EMC2 is extremely reliable and capable. Dave On 5/19/2011 11:23 AM, Viesturs Lācis wrote: > 2011/5/19 Dave<[email protected]>: > >> See my responses embedded below: >> >> It works very well. Try mocking something up and if you get stuck I'll >> try and help you out. >> > Wow, thanks a lot!!! > Honestly, I am pretty far from actually building something. because > that machine is pretty complicated and although it seems that control > side can be handled, the big issue is to get the data in the EMC. > I have not solved that with my client. Saying that they are reluctant > to use cnc control software, which is considered to be a hobby level > solution, is saying just a little. But I hope that robot will make > them reconsider. > > >> I think you working on some custom graphical interfaces for EMC2 a while >> back....... where did that all end up? >> > What I tried to dowas: move pyvcp buttons from the right side of the > screen to the left side. I did that and managed to tie them with > "Manual control" tab, so that they are not visible in MDI tab. It was > successful!!! > > >> I think there were some additions >> made to the EMC2 dev version?? And perhaps the Wiki? >> > Sorry, I did not add anything about it to documentation of any kind, > because I did not feel any kind of interest at all from other users. > > Viesturs > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > What Every C/C++ and Fortran developer Should Know! > Read this article and learn how Intel has extended the reach of its > next-generation tools to help Windows* and Linux* C/C++ and Fortran > developers boost performance applications - including clusters. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-dev2devmay > _______________________________________________ > Emc-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ What Every C/C++ and Fortran developer Should Know! Read this article and learn how Intel has extended the reach of its next-generation tools to help Windows* and Linux* C/C++ and Fortran developers boost performance applications - including clusters. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-dev2devmay _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
