Re: [Emc-users] Hardinge HCNC Retrofit/Rebuild

2012-04-21 Thread Ian McMahon
I have somewhat unreliable tool changes as well. Sometimes it'll miss the change entirely and spin two or three revolutions before the ladder times out. Sometimes it seems like it pops the stop too early, and catches the turret in the wrong position. Often I'll hear what sounds like the stop

Re: [Emc-users] Nonplanar arcs

2012-04-19 Thread Ian McMahon
What about a new plane selection block which allowed you to define an arbitrary plane using 3 points? On Apr 19, 2012, at 2:32 PM, Chris Radek wrote: On Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 09:18:52PM +0300, Viesturs L??cis wrote: How hard would it be to add that? It would require 3 coordinates for each

Re: [Emc-users] Hardinge HNC

2012-04-17 Thread Ian McMahon
Yes, I'm ssi on IRC, and the conversion was quite straightforward. I have $400 in Mesa gear, under $200 for two vfds, and miscellaneous wiring supplies. The stock resolvers work great with mesa's 7i49, there's no problems with the Hiak amps. The only issue I ran into was dirty tachs, and

Re: [Emc-users] Hardinge HNC

2012-04-16 Thread Ian McMahon
I'm using the original motors and original amps with good success. Sent from my iPhone On Apr 16, 2012, at 8:17 PM, Terry Christophersen tcninj...@yahoo.com wrote: Hi all, I have a Hardinge HNC that I am toying with the idea of retrofitting.I know there is a few on this list that have

Re: [Emc-users] CAM / G-code Generation

2012-03-21 Thread Ian McMahon
Just to throw my two cents in, in addition to there being very few cam solutions, there are even fewer that do lathe profiling. The ones that do, it's listed as experimental or seems thrown in. Ian