That's awesome Mark.....Let me give you some more info...... This same program ran on a Selca Control in 16 minutes. That was a $250K refit for a high speed control. That selca is a different animal though. It was designed to push point to point programs thru a 1500 ipm machines.
The EMC version is 2.3.0. EMC is well worth the install. I had a quote to install a PC based windows control on this machine (the 3 axis 3 spindle mill) for about $150K from an outside source. Doing it in house and reusing the Fanuc servos we can more than double the efficiency of the machine for about $16K + My labor. We proved it in house with our own programs and hardware. Another benefit is that I know what makes the machine tick as I have been maintaining it for about 13 years. This is where most refitters suffer. No fault of theirs, I just know the old girl a little better. You guys out in the shops need to push this with your higher ups, It took me almost 2 years to convince them to try it and now they are talking multiple installs after watching the control chew up the programs and spit them out. The other PC based windows control is a very good control but it has a price higher that a new Fanuc for just the base control. In this economy you have to pinch pennies and get the most bang for your buck! EMC2 fits that bill perfectly. Paul ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mark" <mpic...@gmail.com> To: "Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC)" <emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net> Sent: Sunday, March 21, 2010 12:53 PM Subject: Re: [Emc-users] G52 and Fanuc conversion to EMC > That time difference is surprising to me. I started a new wiki page for > machining time comparisons. It might help people who don't think EMC is > serious enough for their needs. > http://wiki.linuxcnc.org/cgi-bin/emcinfo.pl?ControlComparisons > > Mark > > On Sat, Mar 20, 2010 at 9:05 PM, Paul Keeton <pkeet...@woh.rr.com> wrote: > <snip> > >> >> The control only has 3 lines of look ahead. A program that ran in >> 55 minutes runs on EMC in 24 minutes! >> >> > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval > Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs > proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. > See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev > _______________________________________________ > Emc-users mailing list > Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
