Mario, Yea, a pizza wheel cutter is very much the same concept. The one nice feature the old software has is that the knife has two edges so the software would track the distance cut on one edge, then after a defined distance (usually a couple thousand inches) would rotate the knife 180 degrees onto the other edge. After doing the defined distance again, it would automatically move to a sharpening position, so that the knife could either be sharpened or replaced before continuing.
It is not a critical feature, but if I can figure a way to implement it, I would like to put that in. Regards, Eric I'm still reading and thinking about your control concept, also because we made some reasoning previosly that this control concept would be useful for a cutter table with a cutting wheel as a cheaper replacement for laser shape-cutting. It never left the stage of being a nice idea, but I see you are thinking about developing the same. For anybody interested, both cutting machines work in a similar way as a pizza-cutter wheel does work. You work in 2.5D space with the wheel turning in the proper direction. I think the Z axis could be used in either on/off mode (piston) or in true 3 axis mode where it would go up and down to preset heights. I'm not sure if any of the more complicated commands are useful for this mode of operation. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by: SourcForge Community SourceForge wants to tell your story. http://p.sf.net/sfu/sf-spreadtheword _______________________________________________ Emc-developers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-developers
