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Building or Buying a Wood routing table.. Beginnners guide.. / Re: Retro-fit

« on: May 02, 2017, 03:32:51 AM »

No problem what information will be needed as I can get all information easy enough. Thanks for the reply

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Building or Buying a Wood routing table.. Beginnners guide.. / Retro-fit

« on: May 01, 2017, 04:58:20 PM »

Hi all

I will try and explain this as best as possible but as it is mainly my father whom is dealing with it my explanation may not be the best.
We have an understandably old morbidelli a502. He has be retrofitting the machine as the old tria was a complete pain and not what we wanted. My dad has a good understanding of machines and has got as far as retrofitting it so it operates through CSM control then via mach 3. We are now on to getting the axis to work via pulses and voltages etc. The machine has all new encoders etc and is operating but we are just having a few issues with setting the axis up on mach 3. The mach 3 is issuing a fault on our y drive, and it is acting erratically such as fast movements, we have managed to configure the x and z axis so that they will operate at intended speeds but we are struggling with the y axis. All ports and pins are set up correctly to what we know of. Could it be a case that we have configured wrong and that we have set velocities or accel to high? We just can't seem to get past the y fault on the mach 3.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Mach 3 help?

« on: January 29, 2017, 02:08:35 PM »

Thanks for the reply. With how old the system is for us it is more the question of is it worth doing, is it going to be more economical to a business in the long run and less demanding such as support with the software as it seems that trying to get hold of such old software I.e plc is a game of jumping through hoops.

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General Mach Discussion / Mach 3 help?

« on: January 29, 2017, 01:26:26 PM »

Hi I am wondering if any of you much more competent people are able to help me, we currently have a morbidelli a502 (old machine we know) it is currently running on a tria 7000 but the plc is currently down and out, we can go down the route of getting the required files and data for the plc, that isnt the problem, but we also have ideas of possibly trying to get it run on mach 3, now here's the next tricky part we come across, we currently run on aspan which modifies the codes to pgm in order for the cnc and plc to recognise what we wish to make. Is there a way we can still make this work with aspan and if so how would we have to go about it, or is it worth upgrading our cam design software? also if we can upgrade to mach, again how would we go about this? hopefully ive explained it a bit better then i think i have and somebody can help. If there are anymore questions i am happy to try and answer!

Many thanks, Daniel.