Re: [Emc-users] Animatics. Was:Small PC for use with 7i90 / 7i96?

2021-04-01 Thread andy pugh
On Thu, 1 Apr 2021 at 18:49, Gregg Eshelman via Emc-users < emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote: > I'm thinking it might be possible for software like LCNC to do things > like translate complex moves the mill's controller doesn't have into > combinations of things it can do that would produce

Re: [Emc-users] Animatics. Was:Small PC for use with 7i90 / 7i96?

2021-04-01 Thread Gregg Eshelman via Emc-users
The PLM 2000 uses a single unit 3 axis servo controller. Or 4 axis for the rare ones with the HAAS rotary. I read from someone who worked there that they only sold around 40 with the 4th axis. Would have been nice if they'd equipped all with the 4 axis controller for easy upgrades. This was

Re: [Emc-users] Animatics. Was:Small PC for use with 7i90 / 7i96?

2021-04-01 Thread Mark Johnsen
Maybe you could reprogram the animatics to accept step and direction on some inputs, if they're available and do it that way? I had an IMS drive that I did that with to run linuxCNC. Definitely, not the preferred way to do it, though. The IMS setup I had didn't seem to work very well as the

Re: [Emc-users] Animatics. Was:Small PC for use with 7i90 / 7i96?

2021-04-01 Thread Gregg Eshelman via Emc-users
I'm thinking it might be possible for software like LCNC to do things like translate complex moves the mill's controller doesn't have into combinations of things it can do that would produce the same end result. But first thing would be to just get it feeding the mill code it understands so

[Emc-users] Animatics. Was:Small PC for use with 7i90 / 7i96?

2021-04-01 Thread andy pugh
On Thu, 1 Apr 2021 at 00:43, Gregg Eshelman via Emc-users < emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote: I have all the technical info and some setup/configuration software for the > Animatics servo controller but nobody is interested in adding support to > LCNC. I am not sure that you have ever