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General Mach Discussion / Re: Help - Pendant for Indipendent Axles

« on: July 19, 2012, 02:59:41 PM »

Hello HimyKabibble,

about the utility: imagine to use a cnc  lathe but you want to move it manually.
If you have 2 joysticks, one for the long axis and one for the traverse slide,  with different movement mode, i.e. in the left hand the joystick of the long axis, mode continuous  and in the right hand the joystick of the traverse slide,setted up in single steps, 1 cents, you can use Mach3 as a dro, have a zero point etc. and you can turning fast without mistakes because you know at each pressure of the joystick the traverse will move 1 cent.

If you use a common pendant, a part the risk to forget to change the mode, you loose a lot of time.


Are you sure you can not use 3 axis simultaneously?

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Help - Pendant for Indipendent Axles

« on: July 19, 2012, 02:47:22 PM »

Hello Hood,
very and very kind of you, thank you very much.

I send these information to a friend of mine who is helping me and probably  he can match everything.

I hope I will not keep you too much busy whit my questions.

Thank you
Graziano

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Help - Pendant for Indipendent Axles

« on: July 19, 2012, 04:22:54 AM »

Hood pardon but I am not an expert.

What I need is only to fill somewhere in Mach3 the number of the pin arriving from the hardware installed?

Have you time to tell me what are the screens or file to look in Mach3?

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Help - Pendant for Indipendent Axles

« on: July 19, 2012, 03:38:06 AM »

Thank you Hood,
very kind of you.

To realize such a system, what hardware do I need and what software?

Thank You,
Graziano.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Help - Pendant for Indipendent Axles

« on: July 19, 2012, 02:00:21 AM »

Hello Hood, you have a pendant with

-1)a rotary encoder
-2)a rotary switch related to the rotary encoder by which you choose the movement mode: single step (and 3 resolutions 0,01-0,1-1 mm) or velocity mode.
-3)a rotary switch by which you select the axis (X-Y-Z).


What I need:

Assuming to use a rotary encoder instead of a Joystick I asked at the beginning of the post:

1)3 Rotary encoders (One for X , One for Y, One for Z)
2)3 Rotary switches  (related to the encoders X-Y-Z) by which I select the resolution 0,01-0,1-1mm or the velocity mode.

What I ask:
Is it possible to obtain this kind of configuration?
Can we use a Joystick or button instead of the rotary encoder?


Thank You,
Graziano

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Help - Pendant for Indipendent Axles

« on: July 18, 2012, 10:17:34 AM »

To nzinoz: beautiful pendant;  thank you but no, it is not what I need, I need 3 axles indipendent control.


To Hood: thank you Hood, some considerations on your answer:

-Joystick can be  replaced with buttons: does this solve the doubt?

-Spare input: yes I can use a Smooth Stepper controller to have enough inputs

-Please, what are a Brain and a Macropump?

-When you say You did these things on your pendant you mean you put 1 MPG+resolution control+movement control dedicated to each axis?

Thank You
Graziano

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General Mach Discussion / Help - Pendant for Indipendent Axles

« on: July 17, 2012, 06:53:41 PM »

Hello to Everybody,

I'd need a pendant or more than a pendant by which I can manage manually 3 axles in a indipendent way.

I summarize the features for each axis:

a)Joystick forward and reverse
b)Selector for resolution: 1/100-1/10-1mm
c)Selector for movement of the axis: continuous mode and single step

This mean I should have the possibility to move the 3 axles with dedicated joystick, dedicated resolution and dedicated mode of movement.

Is there someone who can help me if Mach3 does really manage these feature and how to do it?


Thank You in advance
Regards,
Graziano