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Third party software and hardware support forums. / Re: POKEYS57CNC and Spindle

« on: December 13, 2017, 06:28:16 PM »

the pokeys puts out 3.5v you will need to boost it up to 5V

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Real 4th axis software for tilting spindle? Not trunnion table way...

« on: December 03, 2017, 02:21:13 PM »

You have to talk to a reseller, or Autodesk to find the cost of powermill when it was up on the sight the cost was not that bad in the 000 

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Real 4th axis software for tilting spindle? Not trunnion table way...

« on: December 02, 2017, 08:59:57 PM »

only 3

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Real 4th axis software for tilting spindle? Not trunnion table way...

« on: December 02, 2017, 07:08:37 PM »

Have a read of this https://www.autodesk.com/products/fusion-360/compare

yep it got 5 axes continus before 4 axis continuous it has 2 now that work for 5 axis, it will have 2 5 axis toolpaths added and 2 that are 4th axis plus toolpaths.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Real 4th axis software for tilting spindle? Not trunnion table way...

« on: December 02, 2017, 05:40:26 PM »

If you wont Indexing 4 + 1 and 4 + 2 Roger  Fusion 360 can do it just not the proper 4th axis continuous (it's wrap that it has at the moment) yet this is not that far away from getting added it has 2 5 axis toolpaths at the moment that work ok.  there is 3 more 5 axis toolpaths coming plus they can be used for 4th axis as well, they are in HSM and Inventor HSM beta they don't work in Fusion cam beta yet

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General Mach Discussion / Re: converting from PDMX 411 to ESS and using g540

« on: November 17, 2017, 03:54:13 PM »

terminal 10 is the Estop/disable pin, terminal 12 common on the G540, terminal 10 translates to pin 15 on the DB25 and you can loop the Estop with the enable line in Mach as long as it is the same state it works.
                                              
 If the motors are disabled in M4 it wont move the motors, that's what the disable is for E stop is the G540 going into a fault state you also need mach to go into the same state at the sametime with the motors being disabled then the power going out.

You need the motors stopping first then power other wise you might blow the G540 fuse what's rear as hens teeth to start with.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: converting from PDMX 411 to ESS and using g540

« on: November 15, 2017, 02:49:51 PM »

Nice 1

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General Mach Discussion / Re: converting from PDMX 411 to ESS and using g540

« on: November 14, 2017, 06:56:27 PM »

I will have to have a look tomorrow how I set the estop and enable signal on my big machine, it was over a year ago that I did it, the geckos stepper drivers all are pretty much the same they need that enable signal to work to start with, on the G540 it's the estop and the enable

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General Mach Discussion / Re: converting from PDMX 411 to ESS and using g540

« on: November 14, 2017, 05:59:39 PM »

What do you have the enable tied to in Mach4

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General Mach Discussion / Re: converting from PDMX 411 to ESS and using g540

« on: November 14, 2017, 02:08:49 PM »

Craig means forget everything and just plug the G540 into port 1 of the ESS