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Need some help - punch press wizard?
« on: March 11, 2012, 04:43:44 PM »
Hi everyone,
I hope this is the right place to post my question.
I have made two axes for the old punch press my friend uses to punch the holes in aluminum plates.
As he is not very skilled with computers, I'd like to provide the simplest solution possible for him. So I'm interested if there is some sort of wizard that I could use, or is it possible to customize an existing one (like rectangular hole pattern for instance)?
The same tool is used for all the work, only the number of holes and distances in x and y directions change. Unfortunately, I don't have any experience with the development of wizards, so I'd appreciate any help or advice.
Thanks in advance.


Re: Need some help - punch press wizard?
« Reply #1 on: March 31, 2012, 09:09:47 AM »
I've retrofit a number of turret punches to Mach3. I use Mastercam and drill cycles to program the punches and tool changes etc. In your case there are no tool changes and if the punches are always in a rectangular array then a simple wizard could do the trick. Contact me at zafarsa at yahoo dot com and give me details about your setup. Maybe I can suggest a solution.

Zafar