Hi all, I just got a message from a guy in Germany who is looking at EMC for a retrofit on a CNC rolling machine. It can be used to roll tubes or cones, and has 6 adjustable axes, with linear scales and hydraulic motors. He has the analog servo drives for the proportional hydraulic valves. I think we can figure out how to drive them, but may need to use a HAL component to add dither to the signal sent to the valves.
The major question is that he wants to teach the program to the machine, not code it up in G-code in advance. I know that "teaching" has been discussed ad infinitum, and ISTR that there may be a script for recording positions during teaching. Can anyone fill me in on the current state of affairs re: teaching? I'm not sure exactly what is needed here, whether this just requires changing roller positions and then running the part back and forth, change rollers, run through again, etc. or whether the rollers are changed while the part is IN the rollers, and the rate and relationship of different rollers is all required in the program. I'm also not too clear on whether the program, once recorded, will then just be run over and over on many parts, but I think that is the idea. Jon ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge This is your chance to win up to $100,000 in prizes! For a limited time, vendors submitting new applications to BlackBerry App World(TM) will have the opportunity to enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge. See full prize details at: http://p.sf.net/sfu/Challenge _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
