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General Mach Discussion / Re: Lathe CNC conversion 1334

« on: August 30, 2012, 04:05:13 PM »

Hi Paul,

thanks for the advice. i like the way you made your leadscrew nut. very good.

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General Mach Discussion / Lathe CNC conversion 1334

« on: August 29, 2012, 03:29:55 PM »

Hi,

I have a Standard Modern 1334 and am interested in converting to CNC, has anyone undertaken converting a similar sized lathe, if so any advice on motors, drivers, controllers, ballscrews, etc, will be appreciated

Thanks
Roy

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General Mach Discussion / Mach3 with Mitsubishi s500

« on: February 05, 2012, 04:39:21 AM »

Hi,

has anyone had success in connecting the S500 series Mitsubishi controller via (RS232) Serial to Mach3, if so please point me in the correct direction to do so.

Thanks
Roy

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Mach3 Turn

« on: August 07, 2011, 07:52:56 AM »

Hi Hood,

please ignore my last question, it was in ignorance as i still done yet know how CNC works.

Roy

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General Mach Discussion / Mach3 Turn

« on: August 07, 2011, 05:53:58 AM »

Hi all,
i have installed the free Mach3,  on the default setup

is ir possible to reverse the cordinates on the X and Z axiz, i.e make z + moving to the left and x + moving in toward centre?

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G-Code, CAD, and CAM discussions / Gcode plugin

« on: August 06, 2011, 05:14:34 PM »

Does any have any experience in creating Gcode from Sketchup.

I'de be grateful for any advice.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Breakout Board

« on: August 01, 2011, 01:38:08 AM »

When you sat I/O there are two busses. the one to the PC which is 5V and the one to the machine, which n mine is 12v.

if you want the one to the machine at 24v then this is very achievable.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Breakout Board

« on: July 31, 2011, 01:48:53 PM »

Thanks Tweakie, Good point

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Breakout Board

« on: July 31, 2011, 01:30:56 PM »

Hi Hood,

I designed mine because I wanted to convert a hobby Myford ML7 to CNC, and was disappointed by current low cost boards and the need to use multilpe boards.

Although i currently develop using PIC micro's, i feel these may well be insufficient for Motor control and I have not touched FPG's in 12 years, due to a career change. So you can see why i am reluctant as a first go to jump in boots and all.

However if you are willing to write down some details of what you would like to see on a basic "Industrial" board controlled by Parallel Port, I'll look into it and see how achievable it woud be with minimal change to my current design or using minimal microcontroller functionality.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Breakout Board

« on: July 31, 2011, 01:17:02 PM »

Point taken and i may well follow up with this as a second board.

My first board is a simple discrete compoent board, I may if interest is there go down the route of a more featured design. right now I am trying to avoid coding micro-controllers or fpga's.