You have to love these guys for all the metal they put into these machines. I have done several conversion of these kind of machines to lcnc and mach3. You can have a very close look at the drivers as I have found many of them not worth the space that they occupy. I normally through them out and get something better. Wantai or Gecko drives. I also replace the breakout board.
On 2014-06-10 18:56, Chris Kelley wrote: > Here at the Labs we recently bought a Chinese 4'X8' CNC router ( > http://www.signstech.com/ProductShow.asp?ID=448) to replace the painfully > slow, and awkwardly sized, 3'X5' router that was built years ago by one of > our members. > > After removing it from the joke of a crate it was shipped in and noting the > inevitable shipping damage (fortunately all cosmetic) we got it hooked up > and running, jogging around at least. > > The software it came with is called NCstudio and, let me tell you, it is > horrifying. Aside from only running under windows, calling the layout and > translation 'bad' would be much like calling the current state of the > Titanic 'wet'. Also, while it will let you input a G20 (inch mode) command > without an error, it will proceed to execute all subsequent code as > millimetres. > > Anyway, we had planned on converting it to LCNC when we ordered it and the > new Mesa hardware just arrived yesterday (5i25 and 7i76). > > Pic of the machine is attached. > > -Chris Kelley > -TX/RX Labs > -Houston, TX > -LinuxCNC Fest 2014, Oct. 18-25 > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > HPCC Systems Open Source Big Data Platform from LexisNexis Risk Solutions > Find What Matters Most in Your Big Data with HPCC Systems > Open Source. Fast. Scalable. Simple. Ideal for Dirty Data. > Leverages Graph Analysis for Fast Processing & Easy Data Exploration > http://p.sf.net/sfu/hpccsystems > > > _______________________________________________ > Emc-users mailing list > Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users -- Regards /Groete Marius D. Liebenberg +27 82 698 3251 +27 12 743 6064 QQ 1767394877 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ HPCC Systems Open Source Big Data Platform from LexisNexis Risk Solutions Find What Matters Most in Your Big Data with HPCC Systems Open Source. Fast. Scalable. Simple. Ideal for Dirty Data. Leverages Graph Analysis for Fast Processing & Easy Data Exploration http://p.sf.net/sfu/hpccsystems _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
