It was my impression that Mach did not implement rigid tapping at all.
Mach will go through the motions of rigid tapping if you call a G84 but it requires that you have a floating holder and that your spindle speeds are close to that commanded as it is just going through the motions and not looking at what is happening. Mach4 will be different but ..... well enough said
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I guess I better revisit that site. It was my impression the CSMIO was a motion controller. From this description, it is also a servo drive? I may give this device a close look for the new mill I will start work on in a couple weeks.
It is just a controller, it is controlling the servo drive/amplifier with +/- 10v and takes in feedback from the encoders so that it can do the PID. The position in Mach is also updated from the encoder position by the IP-A controller that I am using, the IP-S is the Step/Dir one and it does not take axes feedback other than spindle encoder for use in tapping or threading.
The Kflop is a powerful tool, but getting it to do things takes a huge investment in time.
That has always been the drawback of the kflop for me, it is also however the big selling point to others. If you are fluent in C or whatever it uses then you can likely do most things, if you are not then you are relying on others for even basic things or you need to learn programming quick.
The CSMIO products are not so open in this regard but they have thought of nearly everything that is considered normal for machine tool control and implemented it for you.
Yes, I remember. And you work on big stuff with big machines. That's why I was surprised to see M3. Figured the only use you'd have for that might be as a toothpick
I do all sorts, do work for a couple of companies that supply products to oil companies some of which are tiny electronic devices
Big machines can do tiny work where wee machine usually cant do big work
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