On Sat, Oct 20, 2012 at 12:57 PM, Jon Elson <[email protected]> wrote:
> Stuart Stevenson wrote: > > projects for retrofit include > > > > > > W A Whitney manual duplicator punch press > > > Hmmm, that should be an interesting one! > > Mighty Viper 5BC 5 axis bridge mill > > > Wow, you're going to do the Viper! > Yes - the Fanuc 15MB control does not do geometric compensation. Fanuc will not consider adding it. The control has electronic gearing available but not installed (about a USD5000.00 option). This is necessary to move C and not move B. Currently the control adjust B to hold it in place while C moves. This works but is not the proper way to do it. I requested it from the dealer. The dealer installed it. We lost all the parameters one day. I reinstalled from archive. The option was gone. I called Fanuc to ask them how to install it. Their records showed our control had never had it. I did not press the issue with Fanuc or the dealer. The other option I want is larger memory. It is available and is more than USD5000.00. The control has a data server. This is hard drive storage in the control box. You can load a program in memory or drip feed from the data server. The data server does FTP transfers to and from a directory on our network. Restarting(runfromline) when using the server in dripfeed mode is a PITA. The server searches (slowly) from the front of the program and does not read the program or set any modes - it is simply a molasses slow search function. The geometric compensation kinematics I have on the Cinci works very well. I want that on the Viper. All the capability I want is available in LinuxCNC for less than the two options from Fanuc not counting the most important option not available. > > > > I am looking for a cheap Pines CNC tube bender to retrofit. There is a > shop > > in Wichita with a dozen benders. The controls are dying. The machines are > > in great shape. This would be a very interesting project to develop and > > extend. LinuxCNC could be installed and run the current programs VERY > > easily. The programs are dead simple. > > > > Goto point YB > > bend to angle A at a feed rate with various I/O to control > > clamping/guiding/etc > > repeat > > > There are a couple benders (tube and wire) running EMC(something) on > Youtube. > I can imagine this is big stuff in aerospace. > > Jon > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Everyone hates slow websites. So do we. > Make your web apps faster with AppDynamics > Download AppDynamics Lite for free today: > http://p.sf.net/sfu/appdyn_sfd2d_oct > _______________________________________________ > Emc-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users > -- dos centavos ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Everyone hates slow websites. So do we. Make your web apps faster with AppDynamics Download AppDynamics Lite for free today: http://p.sf.net/sfu/appdyn_sfd2d_oct _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
