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General Mach Discussion / Re: Long programs crashing
« on: September 06, 2016, 03:14:02 AM »
Hi Rachie,
I did a bit of searching on the net when I was trying to get this to work and I came across
an article, one of those research paper types from a crew in Germany. Don't have a link
but might be able to find it again.
They were trying to develop machine/methods to wind unusal shapes without a lot of tooling
and so on.
What they did was have the bobbin fixed to the table and the winding head describe an appropriate
path around the periphery under CNC control with the wire exiting a little "L" shaped tube.
Great idea for motor winding and so on. They used a 'you beaut' industrial robot with three arms
varying under computer control. Such machines are capable of high (100's m/sec) and looked good.
I experimented with my 3 axis mill but even screwing everything to the max it would do a turn every
ten seconds or so. It was going to be very slow and as the coils I'm winding are so simple it didn't make
sense. I was impressed by the idea tho... and if I were winding something weird I would certainly go
back and revisit the idea.
Craig
I did a bit of searching on the net when I was trying to get this to work and I came across
an article, one of those research paper types from a crew in Germany. Don't have a link
but might be able to find it again.
They were trying to develop machine/methods to wind unusal shapes without a lot of tooling
and so on.
What they did was have the bobbin fixed to the table and the winding head describe an appropriate
path around the periphery under CNC control with the wire exiting a little "L" shaped tube.
Great idea for motor winding and so on. They used a 'you beaut' industrial robot with three arms
varying under computer control. Such machines are capable of high (100's m/sec) and looked good.
I experimented with my 3 axis mill but even screwing everything to the max it would do a turn every
ten seconds or so. It was going to be very slow and as the coils I'm winding are so simple it didn't make
sense. I was impressed by the idea tho... and if I were winding something weird I would certainly go
back and revisit the idea.
Craig