[Emc-users] Really weird noise problem

2012-07-02 Thread Sven Wesley
My big machine was never shut off, It was on for at least ten days and maybe more. I came to the workshop and swtiched the light on (two rows of industrial double fluorescent), I noticed that the machine gave noise when the light went on which has never happened before. I went to the machine which

Re: [Emc-users] Plasma

2012-07-02 Thread Viesturs Lācis
2012/6/29 Les Newell les.new...@fastmail.co.uk: If you are mainly planning on cutting aluminum I would suggest looking into oil mist cooling instead of flood coolant. Can anyone suggest me way to obtain cutting forces? I would like to have spindle motor on a rotary joint. Since the space is

Re: [Emc-users] Really weird noise problem

2012-07-02 Thread andy pugh
On 2 July 2012 10:07, Sven Wesley svenne.d...@gmail.com wrote: Weird, right? Very much so. One hypothesis might be that the timing of a task relative to the mains frequency might have changed with the restart. it is also possibly possible that the behaviour appeared after a counter wrap

Re: [Emc-users] encoder component in counter mode velocity stability issues

2012-07-02 Thread Jon Elson
Scott Hasse wrote: John is correct. My logging could be more clear. The time between is the since the last rising edge of the input pulse as detected by the update function of the encoder running in the base thread. The counts between is the number of base thread runs since the last rising

Re: [Emc-users] Plasma

2012-07-02 Thread Jon Elson
Viesturs Lācis wrote: Can anyone suggest me way to obtain cutting forces? I would like to have spindle motor on a rotary joint. Since the space is limited, I have an idea for compact design. I have all the sizes, offsets from rotary axis to tool tip etc. But I need to know cutting forces to

Re: [Emc-users] Plasma

2012-07-02 Thread Daniel Rogge
Viesturs, It depends what kind of machining you'll be doing - the forces in milling are lower than those in drilling. Based on some axis motor testing I did a couple years back, I would guess at a conservative estimate of around 250 lbs per spindle horse power for the worst-case machining

Re: [Emc-users] Plasma

2012-07-02 Thread Viesturs Lācis
2012/7/2 Daniel Rogge dro...@tormach.com: It depends what kind of machining you'll be doing - the forces in milling are lower than those in drilling. Based on some axis motor testing I did a couple years back, I would guess at a conservative estimate of around 250 lbs per spindle horse

Re: [Emc-users] Plasma

2012-07-02 Thread Daniel Rogge
Viesturs, I was testing in Aluminum, but I think that for a given spindle HP your results would be similar in other materials. If you're on an open loop machine it's preferable to size the motors such that you stall the spindle before stalling an axis motor because it's often an easier

Re: [Emc-users] Plasma

2012-07-02 Thread Viesturs Lācis
2012/7/2 Daniel Rogge dro...@tormach.com: I was testing in Aluminum, but I think that for a given spindle HP your results would be similar in other materials. If you're on an open loop machine it's preferable to size the motors such that you stall the spindle before stalling an axis motor

Re: [Emc-users] Plasma

2012-07-02 Thread mark center
Vibration consideration and rigidity are usually more limiting factors in machining than HP. For example, a standard Bridgeport style mill has a 1.5 hp motor. Most formulas give ambitious speed/feed/DOC vs hp based on perfect stability. The forces required to cut are small compared to the forces

[Emc-users] Rotate Workpiece Coordinate System?

2012-07-02 Thread Florian Rist
Hi, I wonder if LinuxCNC supports a rotated work-piece coordinate system? I.E. I'd like to be able to place my work-piece anywhere on the table, in any orientation and then somehow measure positions and orientation and then be able to compensate both it so that I can run a my prepared job. I'm

Re: [Emc-users] Rotate Workpiece Coordinate System?

2012-07-02 Thread andy pugh
On 2 July 2012 22:45, Florian Rist fr...@fs.tum.de wrote: I.E. I'd like to be able to place my work-piece anywhere on the table, in any orientation and then somehow measure positions and orientation and then be able to compensate both it so that I can run a my prepared job. See:

Re: [Emc-users] Plasma

2012-07-02 Thread Steve Blackmore
On Mon, 2 Jul 2012 13:15:56 +0300, you wrote: 2012/6/29 Les Newell les.new...@fastmail.co.uk: If you are mainly planning on cutting aluminum I would suggest looking into oil mist cooling instead of flood coolant. Can anyone suggest me way to obtain cutting forces? I would like to have spindle

Re: [Emc-users] Plasma

2012-07-02 Thread Jon Elson
Daniel Rogge wrote: If you're only using small end mills, then the max axis force required is simply just a bit more than the force required to snap the end mill. I would think that a 6mm end mill wouldn't be capable of delivering 1.5 HP to a workpiece. That all depends on RPM. A 6 mm