I have a JGRO style CNC router with the router temporarily removed and an extruder in its place. I use MACH3 to run the extruder and have external temperature controllers for the heater. It works. It's not the best by any means. It's not as fast as the reprap products simply because the mass of the gantry is large enough that the rapid movements required for extruding set up quite the shaking. But that's nothing to do with MACH or any other CNC product but more the size of the JGRO. I'm sure you could mount an extruder in place of the plasma torch on a 8'x4' plasma cutter but the speeds just won't be there compared to the lightweight size 23 based repraps. BTW, I use the A axis for feed. John Dammeyer
> -----Original Message----- > From: Charles Steinkuehler [mailto:char...@steinkuehler.net] > Sent: October-22-14 2:01 PM > To: Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC) > Subject: Re: [Emc-users] part 2 - Mach3 to LinuxCNC > > On 10/22/2014 3:40 PM, Dave Cole wrote: > >>> To be fair, some 3D printers *DO* run Mach. > > > > I didn't know that, thanks for correcting me. > > > > How are they doing temperature control with Mach3 ?? Or are they not > doing that. > > I believe most of the RepStrap style mill refits use off-the-shelf > stand-alone temperature controllers for the exturder. > > -- > Charles Steinkuehler > char...@steinkuehler.net ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
