Brothers and Sisters,
We are a group of final year students in Cairo university, Egypt. Studying
electrical power and machines, our graduation project will be the electrical
control system of a 3-axis CNC mill. I have chosen EMC for computer machine
control, over Mach3 and others, mainly because
On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 09:47:42PM +0200, Ahmed Elghamrawi wrote:
1. What is the best way to communicate with the computer, and EMC? the
parallel port seems (from reading the HAL manual) to be easy enough?
2. What else do we need to know or start reading about to do it?
3. Does EMC have a
slightly worried that a factory specifying that it has to work and
reasonable accuracy (not a unit I know (-:), its a educational project,
and in my country we are not judged on the end product beeing finished, but
the product beeing well documented up to the point we have reached, and its
visible
Welcome.
On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 09:47:42PM +0200, Ahmed Elghamrawi wrote:
So.. blah blah.. how i am what i do.. the point is: were to begin?
We have a fair idea what programming should be, studied that but we have
never did it for real. We don't have an actual machine in our hands yet, but
On Tue, 2008-11-11 at 21:47 +0200, Ahmed Elghamrawi wrote:
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Since we are getting financial support from a local factory to build
this for them, it has to work.. and work with a reasonable accuracy.
EMC2 can give you what you need. It's more up to your effort and budget.
So.. blah
snip
Ahmed,
In addition to the directions of Chris, Kim, Jeff, and Kirk, if you are
looking at additional open source tools for this project - particularly
driver boards, there are several open source board projects underway at
CNCzone.org in the electronics forum. The projects include servo
On Tuesday 11 November 2008, Kim Mortensen wrote:
slightly worried that a factory specifying that it has to work and
reasonable accuracy (not a unit I know (-:), its a educational project,
and in my country we are not judged on the end product beeing finished, but
the product beeing well
Hello to Ahmed.
I acknowledge that the advice to you from the superior metalcutters of
this email society have value, but I suggest a different approach.
1. Download a copy of the EMC - Hardy Heron ISO, and install it on a few
computers.
1.1 This will give you local copies of the
Hey Ahmed,
hello and a good morning back to Egypt. After seeing the many replies
that you've already gotten, i'll just recommend that you carefully read
the emc2 documentation, especially the integrator's manual.
How big is the 3 axis mill that you plan to work on ? Will you be
driving the
