One of our engineering students was tasked with retrofitting a knee mill with an old Delta control down in the Technology department. They handed him a PC and Mach3 for the purpose. He happened to ask me something about the upcoming work, and I pointed out that Mach3 wouldn't work with the DC servo drives and encoders on the machine. I explained about LinuxCNC, and they ended up buying a Mesa 5I25 and 7I77. He spent quite a few hours on the retrofit, but ended up quite successful. He is now building his own CNC router for his engineering senior project, and will be using LinuxCNC for it. So there is hope...
-- Ralph ________________________________________ From: John Alexander Stewart [[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, October 22, 2014 5:57 AM To: Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC) Subject: [Emc-users] part 2 - Mach3 to LinuxCNC I'm always interested to see how "the younger set" build things. Quite often they use Mach3 - here's an example: http://www.buildlog.net/sm_laser/drawings.html Charles and Co. are doing great things with Machinekit and 3D printers, but, how do we get the "younger set" to use LinuxCNC more? I don't know the answers, but I keep pushing LinuxCNC in my own quiet way. JohnS. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Comprehensive Server Monitoring with Site24x7. Monitor 10 servers for $9/Month. Get alerted through email, SMS, voice calls or mobile push notifications. Take corrective actions from your mobile device. http://p.sf.net/sfu/Zoho _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Comprehensive Server Monitoring with Site24x7. Monitor 10 servers for $9/Month. Get alerted through email, SMS, voice calls or mobile push notifications. Take corrective actions from your mobile device. http://p.sf.net/sfu/Zoho _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
