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Re: encoder head pitch, or, quit your griping.
TADGUNINC@... Does anybody have a good source for inexpensive stepper or servo type motors for table drives? I am trying to incorporate a feed back program with my DRO scale to make a cnc out
By TADGUNINC@... · #688 ·
Linux-EMC in a box?
Not too likely with arbitrary hardware, unfortunately. It might work if you said 'given this video card, any of these network cards, this type of hardrive and CD', but most people wouldn't know the
By Andrew Werby <drewid@...> · #689 ·
Re: How do I know if I want Linux
Thanks Jon, this was the main response I was looking for. I think this will be the route that I will travel and have a dedicated machine for all machining operations with the Linux/EMC on it, and as
By Don Hughes <pencad@...> · #682 ·
Re: How do I know if I want Linux
Don Hughes wrote: Absolutely. I used MS DOS floppies for a while, and then I got the networking stuff going. I have minimal (computer-type) hardware on the Linux machine (keyboard, mouse, VGA
By Jon Elson <jmelson@...> · #681 ·
Re: How do I know if I want Linux
Don Hughes wrote: NIST started out trying to make the EMC project run under Windows NT. It ran, but required a $2000 per machine real time extension. NIST couldn't develop this itself, because the
By Jon Elson <jmelson@...> · #680 ·
Re: How do I know if I want Linux
Indeed. See: http://www.opensource.org/halloween.html
By Matt Shaver <mshaver@...> · #679 ·
Re: How do I know if I want Linux
This and this are the most important reasons (I think anyway...) Matt mshaver@...
By Matt Shaver <mshaver@...> · #678 ·
Re: Commercial software
So, uh, you're new here right? OK: ----- From: Mike Simard <msimard@...> Subject: Re: PC based CNC, EMC, Bestsoft, Servo-to-Go etc. Date: 01 Dec 1998 00:00:00 GMT Message-ID:
By Matt Shaver <mshaver@...> · #677 ·
Re: Linux vs. DOS
By Tim Goldstein <timg@...> · #676 ·
Re: How do I know if I want Linux
By Don Hughes <pencad@...> · #675 ·
Re: How do I know if I want Linux
Sure, g-code (or RS-274D for the purists) programs are just text files. Although DOS (and Windows) programs normally create text files with both a carriage return and a line break character at the end
By Matt Shaver <mshaver@...> · #673 ·
Re: Commercial software
I've been looking for "cheap end" software that I can retrofit an old vertical CNC mill with. My problem is that I don't want it totally canned so I cannot make changes. Also, it needs to have a PLC
By "Jon Pritchard" <jpritchard@... · #674 ·
Re: How do I know if I want Linux
Don, Jon and Tim can answer this one better, but yes you can run a Windows CAM program on another computer and then load the resulting G-code into the Linux EMC machine. I did a little bit of this
By Dan Falck <dfalck@...> · #672 ·
Re: How do I know if I want Linux
Actually, the machines I've built have a PC dedicated to the cnc control task, and are be connected to other PCs in the enterprise through the LAN. The main reason for choosing Linux as the OS to host
By Matt Shaver <mshaver@...> · #671 ·
Re: How do I know if I want Linux
Dan: A million thanks for explaining it like you did. I will most certainly keep yours, and everyone else's comments in close proximity on this one. From what you said so far, it looks like I may run
By Don Hughes <pencad@...> · #670 ·
Re: Free shaft encoders
I would love to have three of them to use for a servo retrofit on my manual Bridgeport. I've already got amps, and I'm hot on the trail of some surplus servo motors, so this would just about do it.
By Matt Shaver <mshaver@...> · #669 ·
Re: Free shaft encoders
I have a few Baldwin Model 73 shaft encoders that I pulled off some measuring equipment at work several years ago and it is clear that I will never get around to using them. They are 2-1/2 inch dia.
By John Grant <grantjoh@...> · #668 ·
Re: How do I know if I want Linux
Don, Linux wasn't really the issue to me. EMC was the program that I wanted. My reasons for wanting to use EMC are this: 1. It can control servos or steppers. You can run servos if you buy a Servo
By Dan Falck <dfalck@...> · #667 ·
Re: Good buy on encoders 10000 line encoder wheel and HP HEDS 9100 encoder.
http://www.goldmine-elec.com/ Item G9933
By Andy Olney <aolney@...> · #666 ·
Re: Good buy on encoders 10000 line encoder wheel and HP HEDS 9100 encoder.
Page 2 I believe, catalogue is at work. Look for the a motor that has a "tach wheel".
By Andy Olney <aolney@...> · #665 ·