Andy, don't get me wrong- once I made a setup for gear cutting and made a whole drawer full of change gears for the machine itself, from 24 to 240 teeth, in two days or so. Once the setup is done (gasp!) and the machine running, it has tremendous precision, no play in any spindle or screw and almost unlimited work piece size when milling. I used a demo stepper program that was supplied with the card I bought. The advantage of such a simple program is that you give it a file name and it will work it down, line by line, executing all the X,Y and Z steps that are specified by number in the file at a rate specified before. It figures trajectories from the three coordinates if I want it to. My programming language was MS Excel, the parser was MS Word. Simplest thing in the world. Look it up at www.emisgmbh.de.
Peter Am 25.04.2013 12:35, schrieb andy pugh: > On 25 April 2013 07:37, Peter Blodow <[email protected]> wrote: >> All these all in one machines have the problem of unproductive times. I >> own a small table top machine (google for Hommel UWG2) > I would really like one of those, having read > http://www.lathes.co.uk/hommel/ > But I can't imagine using it much, for the reasons you suggest. > > Note that the author of that web page is soliciting photos of the UWG2. > > I like the phrase "Eierlegende Wollmilchsäue" for it. > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Try New Relic Now & We'll Send You this Cool Shirt New Relic is the only SaaS-based application performance monitoring service that delivers powerful full stack analytics. Optimize and monitor your browser, app, & servers with just a few lines of code. Try New Relic and get this awesome Nerd Life shirt! http://p.sf.net/sfu/newrelic_d2d_apr _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
