I worked on one these a few years back, and built a RS485 sniffer, but never
got as far as looking at the data. The owner was reluctant to attach wires..
I remember the card in the PC being quite large. It obviously did a lot of
stuff.
But I do recollect seeing that the stepper drivers, all
Hi
I think Pro-E for $5K is only designer and will not generate any g-code.
Pro-e Manufacturing is total different and only Pro-E manyfacturing
generates g-code and it may cost around $15.K for Mill only.
i may be wrong, need call to PTC directly
There are Pro-E Mechanical for model stresses
And of course, Freemill at Mecsoft... (maybe already mentioned)
http://www.mecsoft.com/freemill.shtml
Unless you are doing work that has specific requirements, aim for CAD
products that generate, and CAM that import .stl files. They are simple
triangle files, versatile, and you can usually
No, actually the $5k version of Pro-E does include 2.5D CAM according
to the website. No idea how functional it is, but it's better than
nothing. Regardless, $5k is way out of my price range.
Rhino and MadCAM do look nice, when I get some spare time I plan on
taking a look at the demos. I just
At 10:27 AM 3/21/2010, you wrote:
On Sunday 21 March 2010, Mark Wendt (Contractor) wrote:
At 03:12 PM 3/20/2010, you wrote:
snippage
I can't personally testify to that as my only machine is a thoroughly
hacked, all new Z axis saig x1, with 262 or 425 oz steppers on it, aka
the smallest HF
Hello group!
I have servodrives with the ability to use them in SSI absolute encoder
mode.
Have been in contact with Peter Wallace at Mesa regarding support for
SSI
on their servoboards.
He mentioned that support for this was on a to do list, to be
implemented in the
Hostmot2 driver. Is this
2010/3/22 Kasey Matejcek someo...@lkm.bz
I've got a project to do on my 4 axis mill x,y,z,a running EMC
A is parallel to to the X axis and is a rotory head the part will between
centers on the x axis 28 long
The part file is a 3d model of a cylinder like shape egg shape
What cad program
On 22 March 2010 00:17, Mike Payson mikepay...@gmail.com wrote:
Alibre CAD (which is only $197)
Alibre CAD was $97 unsupported last time I looked, or £89 from the UK
distributor. But when I looked again yesterday the US price was $197
with 1 year support and included and no sign of an option
Kasey Matejcek wrote:
I've got a project to do on my 4 axis mill x,y,z,a running EMC
A is parallel to to the X axis and is a rotory head the part will between
centers on the x axis 28 long
The part file is a 3d model of a cylinder like shape egg shape
What cad program will work the best to
For those that may or may not have been following the progress on my
Tsugami NCM45 lathe retrofit, I'm finally at the point of getting EMC2
integrated into the system. You're welcome to see the current (and past)
progress over at http://www.casafrog.com/cfblog
I've closed automatic comments due to
In an interesting twist, Richard, the kind gentleman who sold me my
Tsugami NCM45 also has another Tsugami lathe, this time a (per Richard
- 1986?) 'PL3B which has 11.8 on XZ, some kind of air chuck and was
used for machining lenses. (r)an the spindle,nice and quiet. Very clean
sump to top.
I thank you very much!
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I have a following program:
#!/usr/local/bin/wish
button .hello -text Hello \
-command {puts stdout Hello, World!}
pack .hello -padx 20 -pady 10
How to know to compile this program?
Thank you very much for me!
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[snip]
O200 while [#angle = 360]
G0 A #angle
#angle = #angle + #step
O100 call
o200 endwhile
I guess it might have been better for me to use the correct comparison,
which is LE:
O200 while [#angle LE 360]
- Steve
On Monday 22 March 2010, Mark Wendt (Contractor) wrote:
At 10:27 AM 3/21/2010, you wrote:
On Sunday 21 March 2010, Mark Wendt (Contractor) wrote:
At 03:12 PM 3/20/2010, you wrote:
snippage
I can't personally testify to that as my only machine is a thoroughly
hacked, all new Z axis saig x1,
At 10:34 AM 3/22/2010, you wrote:
When I was in the military, and flying alert, we
carried a SHTF bag. Ya never know... Still have
one, still stocked with the necessaries.
Mark
;-) Boy Scout motto, be prepared. That _is_ the general idea.
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There are four boxes to be
Hi Karl
What are people using to generate tool paths?
I'd like to and another recommendation (as fare as I can see it has not
been mentioned, jet): SprutCAM but the RussianCompany Sprut Technologies:
http://www.sprutcam.com
There website does not work with Firefox :-( but SprutCAM is really
On Monday 22 March 2010, Mark Wendt (Contractor) wrote:
At 10:34 AM 3/22/2010, you wrote:
When I was in the military, and flying alert, we
carried a SHTF bag. Ya never know... Still have
one, still stocked with the necessaries.
Mark
;-) Boy Scout motto, be prepared. That _is_ the
Its a script, and scripts do not need to be compiled.
The first line is the command to which the following text shall be forwarded
as program input. in your case wish.
You make the file executeable by chmod +x thefilename
then you can call it by ./thefilename.
If, you have wish installed.
Have a
On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 10:21 AM, Binh Hoang binhc...@gmail.com wrote:
I have a following program:
#!/usr/local/bin/wish
button .hello -text Hello \
-command {puts stdout Hello, World!}
pack .hello -padx 20 -pady 10
How to know to compile this program?
if you have a file in your
On Mon, 2010-03-22 at 09:31 +0100, Lars Levin wrote:
Hello group!
I have servodrives with the ability to use them in SSI absolute
encoder mode.
... snip
I am really interested in testing this on a gantry system and by using
SSI getting rid of the homing problem in a gantry system, when the
On Mon, 22 Mar 2010, Lars Levin wrote:
Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2010 09:31:49 +0100
From: Lars Levin l...@levindesign.se
Reply-To: Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC)
emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net
To: emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: [Emc-users] SSI Absolute encoders HM2
Hello
To answer my own email, I just looked at Freemill and it's almost a total
waste of time. You can't do more than a single pass, and now it keeps on
crashing... Did'nt seem to allow me to use mm/min feed either, even though
the part was selected as metric.
I used Sprutcam a few years ago too, and
On Mon, 22 Mar 2010, Kirk Wallace wrote:
Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2010 08:30:28 -0700
From: Kirk Wallace kwall...@wallacecompany.com
Reply-To: Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC)
emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net
To: Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC) emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re:
I use synergy for this purpose. They have a versions that runs on
Ubuntu or Windows. Free full version trial package. 21/2 axis the
initial cam level was $250 when I bought it. Whether you need more
depends on how exotic your cuts are. All four axis moving
simultaneously would require the
Thanks for the info - I've added it to :
http://wiki.xtronics.com/index.php/CAD_CAM#Linux_friendly_CAD_CAM_packages for
my reference, feel
free to add...
The little experience with bobCAD I know about convinced me to look for
something else - it would
make stupid indexing moves - no way to
With all this talk about serial encoders, does anyone know anything
about Fanuc serial encoders? I've been looking for the protocol specs
all weekend with no luck. It seems they have a VERY large number of
motors out there in the later red cap series, the encoder is called
the Beta;128ia.
(Sorry, I tried to be cute and put Greek Beta symbols in my message,
didn't work)
With all this talk about serial encoders, does anyone know anything
about Fanuc serial encoders? I've been looking for the protocol specs
all weekend with no luck. It seems they have a VERY large number of
Can you give me the document of your guidance ? or you explain clearly for
me, please! ..thank you very much.
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there is no document.
read http://gd.tuwien.ac.at/linuxcommand.org/learning_the_shell.php
for linux introduction.
read your linux distribution's documentation otherwise on how to install
wish.
On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 5:53 PM, Binh Hoang binhc...@gmail.com wrote:
Can you give me the
I have a gamepad as a jog control, it works well, but the one I have
is rather low-quality (getting it into digital mode so it works at all
needs just the right pressure on the button, for example).
I have been thinking of trading it up to a higher-quality wireless
version, but just saw one of
On 22 March 2010 16:53, Binh Hoang binhc...@gmail.com wrote:
Can you give me the document of your guidance ?
Perhaps this would be a useful investment?
http://www.amazon.co.uk/TCL-TK-Dummies-Tim-Webster/dp/0764501526
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Andy Pugh wrote:
I have a gamepad as a jog control, it works well, but the one I have
is rather low-quality (getting it into digital mode so it works at all
needs just the right pressure on the button, for example).
I have been thinking of trading it up to a higher-quality wireless
version,
At least in the US, Alibre very quietly changed their terms, so while
they still advertise it as costing $97, they require you to buy the
first year of maintenance at $100. Annoying, but considering that it
was $995 and I think $300 for maintenance for the same package not too
long ago (not
Just talked with George Bulliss about the CNC Workshop* and I have
some more details on the EMC Fest facilities.
It sounds like the CNC Workshop will be in a fairly empty building
that has 4 classrooms and some large open areas. (For some reason I
think this may be a newer building.) He has
On 22 March 2010 17:30, Andy Pugh a...@andypugh.fsnet.co.uk wrote:
With this hint, I found the original thread:
http://www.mail-archive.com/emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net/msg02091.html
And that thread shows that Tormach already use the exact same device,
with a bit of screen-printing...
Use hidcomp.
http://hidcomp.sourceforge.net/
Unfortunately it relies on the QT4.5 libraries so it can't be made part of
emc at this time (maybe Ubuntu 10)
There are download and install instuctions at the link.
-Original Message-
From: Andy Pugh [mailto:a...@andypugh.fsnet.co.uk]
Since you have talked about tkemc I'll assume that you are running an
EMC2 install on the computer you are attempting to run this new
program.
I had to make a few changes in order to get your program to run. Put
the following program in a text file, make that file executable and then
ask
On 22 March 2010 20:11, Frank Tkalcevic fr...@franksworkshop.com.au wrote:
Use hidcomp.
http://hidcomp.sourceforge.net/
Interesting! That suggests another possibility, I have a handful of these chips:
http://www.delcomproducts.com/productdetails.asp?productnum=902770
Which support USB HID. I
Does anyone know if there is a script for emc similar to in mach 3 where
you can touch of multiple edges of a circle and it will calculate the
center for you?
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On Mon, 22 Mar 2010 11:14:48 +0200, you wrote:
And of course, Freemill at Mecsoft... (maybe already mentioned)
http://www.mecsoft.com/freemill.shtml
Unless you are doing work that has specific requirements, aim for CAD
products that generate, and CAM that import .stl files. They are simple
Jon,
I may have some info on these encoders at work. I'll look
tomorrow. We use some of the Beta stuff on our newer machines.
Dave Keeton
Technical Services Manager
The Eagle Tool Machine Co.
Springfield, Ohio
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From: Jon Elson
Jon,
These encoders are made to have a battery backup attached to them
so they can retain position when shut off for long periods of time. When the
machine is powered up it sends a request on one of the lines for the encoder
to send it's position info back to the control so it can
Dale,
Sounds pretty good to me. Thanks a bunch for being
our man on location for interfacing with George. I
look forward to seeing you there. Matt and I will be
taking advantage of the cheap dorm rooms for lodging
and planning to stay for the full show.
Steve Stallings
-Original
Ok, I got it to come up, it really looks nice and useful. Now I have
got to rig up a pendant so that I can play around with it in an
environment that will actually let me move the machine and perhaps use
it to cut some parts. It took a little cleanup from a failed attempt to
install touchy last
Hi,
Does anyone know if there is a script for emc similar to in mach 3 where
you can touch of multiple edges of a circle and it will calculate the
center for you?
I don't know such a script, but if you just want to calculate the
center, here is a description of the solution:
Are you sure we need realtime?
It is my understanding that EMC is 'Realtime thereby eliminating the slow
serial port for machine control.
As Roland notes below, the machine accepts Step/dir signals converting it to
using the parrallel port should be easy at worst.
Somewhere in the EMC wiki is
I have a garage near Reading PA, be could drop it off in provided the wife
isn't home
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There is a file in the examples: probe-hole.ngc
that finds the center and diameter of a hole.
I can't test if it works because i don't. have a touch probe.
Message: 6
Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2010 17:04:38 -0600
From: Dustin Monroe monroe.dus...@gmail.com
Subject: [Emc-users] Python script find
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