Re: Cranks and buttons
I don't know about the other manual mills, but retro fitting a Bridgeport
manual mill is not a cost effective plan. A good Bpt manual goes for around
$7000 add ball screws, motor mounts, motors, power
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Darrell <dgehlsen@...>
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#7475
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Re: Conversational Programming and NAMES- very long!
I don't think he was using the Bridgeport drivers.
Darrell
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Darrell <dgehlsen@...>
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#7474
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Re: Jog Pendant
the only machine I've seen that used a joystick to jog is the Omniturn
retrofit
package and that just used a digital stick in place of the usual 4 jog
buttons
it seems like a good idea at first but
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Brian Pitt
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#7472
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Re: Conversational Programming
http://164.195.100.11/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=/neta
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html/search-bool.html&r=17&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=pall&s1=Hurco&OS=Hurco&RS=Hurc
I read this post and the patent it
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Matt Shaver <mshaver@...>
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#7473
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Re: Jog Pendant
Brian Bartholomew wrote:
The problem with the PC game joysticks is they are extremely
non-linear, and drift wildly with temperature. they use a cheap
pot it the stick, and a timer chip and cheap
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Jon Elson <jmelson@...>
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#7468
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Re: CPNC
the CP program has been available at ftp://isdftp.cme.nist.gov/pub/emc/
for a couple of months as cp.zip
Brian
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Brian Pitt
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#7467
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Re: Conversational Programming and NAMES- very long!
Carlos Guillermo wrote:
As Far As I Know
There are some acronym dictionaries for the net, but I can't cite a
particular URL for one.
Jon
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Jon Elson <jmelson@...>
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#7466
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Re: CPNC
Ron Ginger wrote:
Yup, I had the local dealer for AccuRite out to show me their system.
The CPNC was VERY impressive, I was very excited, until I heard
their price. At the time, they only had what
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Jon Elson <jmelson@...>
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#7465
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Re: Names
Dan Mauch wrote:
Yes, of course, I do this all the time, too! I sometimes machine with
the jog keys,
but that ties up one hand, so I often key in the G-code to make various
cuts.
I can key in a
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Jon Elson <jmelson@...>
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#7464
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Jog Pendant
Sounds like work. Why not use one of those existing commercial PC
game joysticks with fifty zillion buttons on it?
Brian
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Brian Bartholomew <bb@...>
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#7463
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Re: vector-cam?
Jim,
I have Vector CAD/CAM and am a very happy customer. It is easy to use,
amazing in what it can do (just love the pocket and skin functions), and
best of all the support from Fred at IMService is
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Tim Goldstein
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#7461
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Re: Conversational Programming
Does anybody know how much of the $11,000 of an Accurite is paid in royalty
to Hurco for their conversational controller patent?
4,477,754 Roch , et al. October 16, 1984 Interactive machining
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Fred Smith <imserv@...>
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#7459
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Re: Conversational Programming and NAMES- very long!
As far as I know
Larry
Carlos Guillermo wrote:
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lawrence jackman <ljack70117@...>
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#7462
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Re: Auto Cad Lt
Well all the responded I received so far have been very positive. We have
2000 just setting on the shelf. I'll get started .
Thanks to all for your input.
Jim
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James Cullins <jcullins@...>
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#7458
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Re: vector-cam?
Jim,
I use Vector CAD/CAM and really like it. At first, it was hard for me to get
used to, since I have been using Autocad . But, after using Vector for a
while, I can get around in it very well.
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Dan Falck <dfalck@...>
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#7460
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Re: vector-cam?
Jim Fackert wrote:
I'm just getting started with it. Been limping on a demo 14.0 version of
Bobcad for several years (cutting and pasting 11 lines at a time into
Notepad...).
Vector is different from
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Jon Anderson <janders@...>
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#7457
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vector-cam?
Does anyone have any experience with Centriforce VECTORCad cad-cam
software? How's it work?
It was shown at the names show, looks pretty nice... integreated parametric
cad and cam with g-code, etc.
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Jim Fackert <jfackert@...>
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#7456
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Re: Subject: Manual Vs CNC Was Re: Names
Sometimes CNC can be the way to go for even a single hole.
Some years back in a sheetmetal shop I worked at, a custome rectangle
punch/die was ordered for a job. Needless to say, it showed up at
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Jon Anderson <janders@...>
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#7454
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Re: Cranks and buttons
In a message dated 05/04/2000 1:36:04 PM Hawaiian Standard Time,
munro@... writes:
<< As for me, I am in the process of getting a CNC mill, but I was told in no
uncertain terms that I
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ptengin@...
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#7469
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Re: Conversational Programming and NAMES- very long!
As Far As I Know, that's what it means.
Paul
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Paul Amaranth | Rochester MI, USA
Aurora Group, Inc. | Systems & Software
paul@... | Unix / Windows / NT
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Paul Amaranth
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#7453
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