Hi to everyone,
I'm Chuck. I live in Arkansas. I am brand new to CNC. When I say brand new, I mean that I became interested in CNC just last year and have been absorbing as much information as possible from forums, websites and the like. I have purchased 2 mills (Shizuoka with a tool changer and a Bridgeport SD7). In the last week I have tackled trying to write a script in VB for one of my projects. I haven't used any programming since I was in the 7th grade. In 1983 we had Apple computers and basic. Now it's like trying to learn a foreign language without a reference point. I have purchased Mach3 and BobCAD/CAM and so far with fairly minimal head to screen pounding I have learned what would be the equivalent of a few pages of the A volume in a 26 volume Encyclopedia set.
My wife and I are remodeling our new to us house and then I have a new metal building to erect for housing my machines. So for now I am learning as much as possible and wading through the bottomless cornacopia of information.
My current affair is an old pallet building machine that I want to control the set up of pallet size with CNC. It has places for 4 nail guns that mount on a gantry. I want to move the nail guns with minimal user input to accomodate all (reasonable) pallet sizes up to a maximum of 14' long by 6' wide. The VB script I have written for this works. I am proud of my effort and shared it with my wife, father in law, and son, none of which were nearly as enthusiastic as I. For me it was a huge victory. I would like to share it with folks that can appreciate the effort, but being that there is more than one way to skin a cat and my way is probably not as efficient or pretty as others I may wait to do so.
Anyway, I'll be asking for help from time to time, contribute where possible, and hope to make some new frinds along the way.
Sincerely, Chuck