Am 08.09.2010 21:08, schrieb Dave: > I don't understand the situation.... > An 840D with the right options can easily run a 5 axis mill, but cheap, > or economical it is not. > > Dave Hi Dave
You are right, but I would not recommend to retrofitting a machine running with a siemens 810 to emc: a) one needs to teach emc how to connect to simatic, sinamic and other digital interfaces. And the current status of emc is that it is not even able to run can or something like ethercat(TM) ethernet/ip. (I will give etherlab a try when I get the hardware next week) b) one has to switch the digital drives built in to accepting pulse signals as stepper simulation or even worse accept analog input. and for plc one has to either rewire the sps inputs or use an external s7 sps to drive the simatic i/o's. Either way one will need a simens technican. And the costs of doing this will outweight buying a 840. bye Ulf ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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 Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
