Welcome, Guest. Please login or register.
Did you miss your activation email?
May 27, 2012, 03:23:38 PM

Login with username, password and session length
Search:     Advanced search
* Home Help Search Calendar Links Login Register
+  Machsupport Forum
|-+  General CNC Chat
| |-+  Show"N"Tell ( What you have made with your CNC machine.)
| | |-+  26" ABM Innova long arm quilting automation
Pages: 1   Go Down
« previous next »
Print
Author Topic: 26" ABM Innova long arm quilting automation  (Read 1244 times)
0 Members and 1 Guest are viewing this topic.
n4807g
Active Member

Offline Offline

Posts: 11


View Profile
« on: February 12, 2011, 08:31:13 AM »
Finished adding 2 axis stepper control to my wife's long arm quilting machine.  Total out of pocket cost including HP Touchsmart computer and Art and Stitch digital design software about $4,000.  Took 10 days and I had a blast.  Smoothstepper and Mach3 made this project a snap...thanks to all who designed and maintain Mach3!!!!  Here's a link to my you tube.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RWmdZi4BODM

PS...Innova's Autopilot CNC system costs $15,000 plus installation. 
Logged
N4NV
Active Member

Offline Offline

Posts: 336


View Profile
« Reply #1 on: February 12, 2011, 10:04:39 AM »
Great project!  Only 10 days!  I think my fastest project has been 10 months.

Vince
Logged
n4807g
Active Member

Offline Offline

Posts: 11


View Profile
« Reply #2 on: February 12, 2011, 12:59:35 PM »
Your projects are undoubtedly more complex.  This was about as basic as they come....
Logged
Tweakie.CNC
Active Member

Offline Offline

Posts: 3,263


Super Kitty.


View Profile WWW
« Reply #3 on: February 13, 2011, 02:42:52 AM »
Brilliant work.
Do you drive the material take up rollers or is this a manual task ?

Tweakie.
Logged
Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.  Winston Churchill.
n4807g
Active Member

Offline Offline

Posts: 11


View Profile
« Reply #4 on: February 13, 2011, 06:07:09 AM »
The take up rolls could be driven but it wouldn't provide an advantage because the quilt matrix still has to be aligned when repositioned due to the stretching of the fabric. 
Thanks for the observation.

N4
Logged
Pages: 1   Go Up
Print
« previous next »
Jump to:  

Powered by MySQL Powered by PHP Powered by SMF 1.1.16 | SMF © 2011, Simple Machines Valid XHTML 1.0! Valid CSS!