Re: EMC For lathes

[Bob Dring <bobd-at-micro.com.au>]

Ray,
Thank you for the info. 
I have been holding off doing an EMC retrofit to a Boxford mill (260VMC)
because I also want a
common software user interface with a later retrofit project on a Boxford
lathe (TCL240). 
It sounds like EMC might get me where I want to be, at least in the long run.

Bob, Australia.

At 08:23 AM 7/23/00 -0400, you wrote:
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>Bob
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>I'm told that there is some code that used an axis of the servo-to-go
>board to feed spindle position into the EMC.  We will need to revive that
>code, make sure that the motion stuff is up to helical interpolation at
>threading speeds,  and add some canned threading cycles to the interpreter.
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>Short answer.  I think that the NIST folk are thinking about it.  I need
>it also.
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>Spindle position is also of value for auto tool change so I'm sure it
>will make it in there.
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>On Sun, 23 Jul 2000, you wrote:
>> Are there any plans to add threading to EMC?
>> 
>> Bob, Australia
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