Hello,
Owner and user of some big iron using Linux CNC. I am not a noob but close, I started down this path 5-6 years ago and have hung Linux on three turning centers and 1 Three axis mill. With that being said I went through a steep learning curve on the first machine and at the time had a very good maintenance man employed here that took off and ran with most of the heavy lifting of using Linuxcnc . For the most part we just run what we have and never update so my limited Linux skills have become very rusty (they were never that great). Now I have a project that I would like the experts to guide me on if you guys see fit. I have a rotary axis that I want a stand-alone control on. One axis display, Touchy maybe? Punch in the degrees of rotary and execute as needed during a pause in the machining program on the machine control. I would be able to move this head to two different mills for indexing operations, one being an old Okuma Bridge mill with 10 feet of travel. Any thoughts or ideas on the best way to pull this off? PC? RPi4? Which operator interface will work the best? I have a very nice 20" head sitting here with a RotoKing control by J&P Control Systems out of Connecticut that would work if I could find an operation manual for it, Google has turned up nothing for me. Any thoughts on this project? Jeff Johnson [email protected] Superior Roll & Turning 734-279-1831 _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
