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General Mach Discussion / Re: anilam 1100

« on: November 21, 2011, 06:49:12 PM »

Hi all,

Considering doing a retrofit on an 1100M myself and wondering how far anyone has gotten?

Looking for feedback on how well the analog signal works compared to step and direction.

Thanks.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Surface grinding?

« on: May 16, 2008, 04:16:23 PM »

Eco,

            Any cam program will work with what you are trying to do. Check out Bobcad there program is very customizable, you only need to put out G-code if you plan on using Mach and you need to control 3 axis and are only going to perform a 2 axis interpulation(x&z) the y will be bumped over at the end of stroke.If all else contact me I believe I can write these for you.

Your cost would be feasible if you were doing the conversion yourself. But this is going to be a bit of work.

I believe any quality grinder will work (although you want gibs not ball ways, its a finish issue) Brown & Sharp and Thompson are a few more SG to look for. We have a small SG at our shop with coolant on it, it is by no means a production grinder. You also want tempurature controled spindle bearings some are air cooled while high end will have refrig units.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Surface grinding?

« on: May 15, 2008, 08:21:41 PM »

Eco,

Personally I dont see a problem with a SG conversion. I'm a toolmaker, what your talking about doesn't seem all that difficult.

How fast your going to produce these parts is a question though.

 Start with a good quality machine (a SG for sure though) , grind wet, and good quailty close pole chuck the rest is trial and error with wheel dressing routines and such. Customized fixtures would be needed to support you part but thats commonplace.The motion would be much like a mill, just my 2 cents. Good Luck.

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Brains Development / Re: Servo Fault Monitor

« on: May 13, 2008, 04:54:16 PM »

Thanks Scott thats a great way to expand I/O and in hindsight would have been cheaper than the upgrade to the Grex.

 So is there anyway to send a message to the status line with a brain?

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Brains Development / Servo Fault Monitor

« on: May 12, 2008, 05:30:59 PM »

  I am new to brains so forgive my ignorance. I am looking to monitor my servos and output a message as to which axis faulted and stop the system if it should fault out. When i come to my termination I assume i would Send String for my message, I want to display this in the staus line but I dont know the register. Is there any documentation available?I have already watched the videos.

                                                                                                                       

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Keygrabber Question

« on: December 10, 2006, 11:58:09 AM »

I'm aware that I am able to program a key as a modifier, my thought was to set the "esc" key as my modifier and the use the combination of this modifier and another key to essentially double the amount of characters available. Problem is the source column only allows for a single key press. Am I just confused or is this not possible with keygrabber? Currently I'm using a small USB keyboard, I am open to suggestions to what others have done, I have an I-pac and enough inputs left as I figure I need 24 different characters for this. Thanks.

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General Mach Discussion / Keygrabber Question

« on: December 07, 2006, 07:53:53 PM »

Hello All,

 I know that keygrabber can translate simple keystroke to complex ones, but can it also do the opposite? I ask this because I would like to use a small keypad mounted next to my monitor as quick means of editing programs and would need the keys to perform more than one function. I would like to set one key as shift or alt, something of that nature, and this would remap the keypad while depressed. I have messed with it but found I can only use 1 key for the Source key. Thanks for any help.