I don't understand the situation.... "Newer 5 axis machine", "840D" and "budget limitation" generally do not all go into the same paragraph.. ;-)
An 840D with the right options can easily run a 5 axis mill, but cheap, or economical it is not. Dave On 9/8/2010 2:37 PM, Ulf Dambacher wrote: > Hi Flo > > If you have money for a dmg machine of this new age, maybe emc is not > what you need. > The Siemens 810 is fully digital and fitting emc with the other digital > controls would require much rewiring. > It would be better and simpler to upgrade the 810 to 840. > > Maybe you should look for a good old machine on ebay? > > Bye > Ulf > > Am 08.09.2010 20:00, schrieb Florian Rist: > >> Hi, >> I need a new machine for (rather light, no heavy machining of cast iron >> or stainless stsel) 5axes simultainus milling in research and >> development and education. Since I'm on a short budged I start thinking >> about getting a cheep 5axes machine, not capable of 5aces milling by >> default, but equipped with strong enough servos and good encodes on the >> aces rotary axes and then replace the 3+2 axes controller by EMC >> (capable of 5 axes interpolation). >> >> One of the machines that might be used for that conversion the the DMU >> DMG eco 50 (haven't verified it the rotary aces hardware is strong >> enough, yet) : http://www.dmgecoline.com/de-DE/30-dmu-50-eco >> >> So, what do you think, would EMC be able to keep up with the Siemens >> 810D controller? >> >> > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > This SF.net Dev2Dev email is sponsored by: > > Show off your parallel programming skills. > Enter the Intel(R) Threading Challenge 2010. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-thread-sfd > _______________________________________________ > Emc-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net Dev2Dev email is sponsored by: Show off your parallel programming skills. Enter the Intel(R) Threading Challenge 2010. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-thread-sfd _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
