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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: New people welcome !! Come in here and introduce your self!
« on: January 11, 2008, 04:13:57 AM »
While new to the forum I registered my copy of Mach 3 about a year ago. No I've not done much with it nor with the Emco Compact 5 CNC lather and Emco F1 CNC mill both of which I've completed 90% of a retro fit. Both are in my lounge room and before I complete the fit outs I need to build in a room under the house. This is proving costly and time consuming (it's rained over my 4wks holidays and I've not been able to do a thing due to the inclement weather).
I teach Industrial Technology in a high school on the east coast of Australia. While I am not a formally trained as such a teacher I do have a couple of trades and have a Dip Mech Eng. Most of my working life has been in the heavy transport industry and basic science labs. The current school that I am at has a Hercus CNC lathe (a PC200) and a Hercus CNC mill both of which are Australian made. Having run some Fanuc machines I am finding these Hercus machines frustrating due to non standard G codes. Can Mach 3 be used with these without a retrofit? Also we have a Adept Pro (?) and it would be nice to run Mach on this too.
Anyway I'll keep tuned in here and when the rain stops I'll attend to my building works so that one day I can finish the rertro fit I started 18mth ago.
rob
I teach Industrial Technology in a high school on the east coast of Australia. While I am not a formally trained as such a teacher I do have a couple of trades and have a Dip Mech Eng. Most of my working life has been in the heavy transport industry and basic science labs. The current school that I am at has a Hercus CNC lathe (a PC200) and a Hercus CNC mill both of which are Australian made. Having run some Fanuc machines I am finding these Hercus machines frustrating due to non standard G codes. Can Mach 3 be used with these without a retrofit? Also we have a Adept Pro (?) and it would be nice to run Mach on this too.
Anyway I'll keep tuned in here and when the rain stops I'll attend to my building works so that one day I can finish the rertro fit I started 18mth ago.
rob