I had a chance to play with a Hurco CNC mill for about 5 minutes. The mill is nice and interesting, but I will mention one thing only, regarding user interface.
For jogging, it has a MPG for setting up jog speed, the plus and minus buttons for setting direction, and X, Y, Z buttons to pick the axis to jog. On my mill, I have a Saitek P880 joypad. Compared to the Hurco interface, the joypad plainly RULEZ when it comes to ease of use. I can jog all three axes simultaneously at different speeds and do not need to use any wheel to set the speed, I can just push the joyhandles, stornger or less strongly, and that changes the jog speed. This is far, far better. And the most amazing thing is that the cost of this joypad solution is only a small fraction of the cost of the Hurco's hand control. i ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Lotusphere 2011 Register now for Lotusphere 2011 and learn how to connect the dots, take your collaborative environment to the next level, and enter the era of Social Business. http://p.sf.net/sfu/lotusphere-d2d _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
