Re: [Emc-users] Gantry kinematics and homing

2007-01-23 Thread Marc Bodmer
ity is plenty for my application. > > > > Thank you, > > Aram Kasparov > > > > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Hansjakob Rusterholz > Sent: Sun 1/21/2007 9:30 PM > To: Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC) > Subject:

Re: [Emc-users] Gantry kinematics and homing

2007-01-23 Thread Kasparov, Aram
m Kasparov From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Hansjakob Rusterholz Sent: Sun 1/21/2007 9:30 PM To: Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC) Subject: Re: [Emc-users] Gantry kinematics and homing Hi The system builder also tried the way with an shaft. He said you will never get the desired ac

Re: [Emc-users] Gantry kinematics and homing

2007-01-22 Thread Hansjakob Rusterholz
Am 22.01.2007 um 21:06 schrieb Marc Bodmer: > @ Hansjakob > Thank you for the summary of your experiences. The whole homing thing > seems to be easier with linear encoders, especially absolute ones. > There one could just adjust the offset and then slave the second axis > to the position of the m

Re: [Emc-users] Gantry kinematics and homing

2007-01-22 Thread Marc Bodmer
@ Hansjakob Thank you for the summary of your experiences. The whole homing thing seems to be easier with linear encoders, especially absolute ones. There one could just adjust the offset and then slave the second axis to the position of the master axis plus the offset. The ones you describe seem t

Re: [Emc-users] Gantry kinematics and homing

2007-01-22 Thread Jarl Stefansson
Hey Hansjakob, I have some experience with exactly what you are dealing with, I built my own plasma table 6.5m x 2.5m with dual stepper motors on the gantry. The dallur-thc sample config in version 2.1 is for just such a config but I have not included gantry kinematics (homing) yet, I hope to do

Re: [Emc-users] Gantry kinematics and homing

2007-01-21 Thread Hansjakob Rusterholz
Hi The system builder also tried the way with an shaft. He said you will never get the desired accuracy and dynamics, but for an plasma cutter, this may be not the problem. The gantry was about one metric ton and accelerated in 300 ms to 30 m/ minutes! Only the servo amplifiers costed me over 2

Re: [Emc-users] Gantry kinematics and homing

2007-01-21 Thread Kasparov, Aram
Hi I am building similar plasma burning table (10 by 10 feet) and I am going to solve problem of second servo mechanically by putting long 10 feet shaft. That is more reliable and simple way to solve problem of wide gantry machine. The most important that way will reduce need in one servomotor

Re: [Emc-users] Gantry kinematics and homing

2007-01-21 Thread Hansjakob Rusterholz
Hi Marc I was working long time on an six axis gantry laser system with about 2.7 to 1.8 meters travelling range. As I understood from the machine builder, they used also two "independent" servos fore both gantry sides, one was the master servo, and the other was tracking to the master. Both

[Emc-users] Gantry kinematics and homing

2007-01-20 Thread Marc Bodmer
Hello I am on my way on building a gantry table for a plasma cutter and setting up EMC. So far i am very impressed with EMC, thanks for that great work. I am thinking about adding a second servo motor to the X Axis so that it would be driven on both supported sides of the gantry. However I am not