> While I don't have a problem with separating the motion control and the HMI > hardware. (it is how most commercial CNCs have done it for the past 30 years > or more.)
Have an old Sodick wire EDM built this way and think it is a rather good idea though which components are readily available is also important, currently run both motion control and HMI on ordinary computer. > But being more like a printer isn't a good thing. I've used CNCs whose > controls are set up very similar to how a printer works, and frankly they are > a giant pain in the ass to use compared with a conventional CNC. (The > manufacturer of those routers mostly makes large format printers and stuff > for the sign industry.) While it kind of sucks on a sign router, I think > that system would be almost totally unworkable on a cnc mill. Just about the > only reason those 3 routers haven’t had a brain transplant to convert them to > Linuxcnc, is the half a terabyte of existing code already set up for the old > proprietary system, and doesn't use g-code and can't be easily ported to a > different system. (Well, I've actually converted one of them but It's old > control can still be plugged back in and used, but that wouldn't be possible > with the other 2.) It is hard to ash can that many man hours of setting up > machine files (nearly 20yrs of accumulation.) Planned to use machine more or less CNC machine as a printer but have no experience at all yet. Use CAD software on computer to make drawing and generate g-code and then run it on the CNC machine though user interface as is now should if not always at least be available then needed. _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
