CNC Cut to length Saw Screen and Wizards......

[poppabear]

This is a Screenset that has a Wizard in the same set.

It has 2 Wizards: One for doing multilple numbers of cut offs of the same size from a long piece of stock.
The other is for doing multiple variable length pieces from stock.
You will need to check persistant dros, and read the Doc. in the Zip file.
Note this is a "Stand Alone" screen, it is meant for a dedicated CNC saw machine.

It is based on a Chop saw, but any metal saw will do, The Saw will need to be able to go striaght up and down, not pivot cut (see simple CAD views).

I may be adding a "Miter" function as well to the above Wizards to increase its versitility. It uses 2 motion axis (3 when I do the miter part), and a spindle for the blade drive.
Resources are various Prox switches, in which you may need another bi-directioanl port or PLC depending on how much moniting you want.

I used "Drive Wheels" to drive the stock through, with a "pusher wheel" powered by Air or Hydrolics, the pusher wheel should also have the encouder for the X drive, not the drive wheel.

you may need to chain two drive wheels together and two pusher wheels together to get better stock stability/control. (I did not use the push pull vice as that was much more inefficient).

It has options to add coolent, and oilers if you want.

As usual for my stuff, Individual users is free, but commercial or OEMs please contact me for payment.

As I get the Miter version done I will add to this thread as well.

Scott

[poppabear]

opps.........

found and fixed a bug in the CNC saw wizard, download this screen set that has the fix.

scott

[poppabear]

Opps.....again.........(darnit).........found and fixed some other bugs, added reset buttons to the piece number dros to reset to zero.

I think I got them all this time, let me know if you find some.

scott

[markn]

Hello,

How do I load the screen for viewing?

Mark

[poppabear]

The CNC Saw was meant as a stand along app. So it is a Mach Screen set, (although, you probably could drop in it the addons and use it as a wizard).
to use it as a stand along, drop a copy of the screen set into Mach 3 main directory. Open up mach, click the view and load screen, the pick the cnc saw and hit ok.

scott

[markn]

Hello,
I've loaded and tried out the interface. Really nice! One question, is it functional? When I use  the cut to length wizard I get an error message. Do I need to load Mach 3 in order to use this screen.

Regards, Mark

[poppabear]

Yes, it is functional, BUT, the cncsaw screen is a stand alone control, meaning when you start up mach you  goto view and load the CNCsaw screen, it is your CNC controller.
Mach has to be loaded for it to function cause it will load the Gcode into the run window.
I have Enclosed a "Zipped" copy of UPDATED CNC saw and "CNCsaw Brain" in this post, please download the screen set, and place it into the Mach3 main directory, and put the brian in the brian folder.

Also I added a "Brian" to it that will monitor your inputs for Clamp not closed which turns on an LED and puts the system into feed hold, since it would be unsafe to operate without the piece clamped and not work as well. You will need to Set up OEMTRIGGER1 to the ports and pins you want to use for the "Is not clamped" prox swtich.

OEMTRIGGER2 is set in the brian to to monitor for Blade Brakage, it turns on an LED, and Estops the system.  You will need to set it up port and pin as well.

OUTPUT2 is the activate (close) your roller clamp, you will need to pick port an pin.

M8 is your flood coolent, you can tick off output1 for your flood, and set up outputs1 port and pin.


Scott