SURVEY: Respond with your configuration

> Ken Jenkins writes:
> I guess my question is in the nature of a survey of sorts.
> What I'm proposing is just a simple response from anyone
> who'd like to participate listing the following:
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> 1. Design work : software used

I have a number of small (c) programs that write G-code for standard
things, like milling round and rectangular pockets, drilling hole
circles,
etc. See http://www.artsci.wustl.edu/~jmelson/gcode.html

For more complex shapes, I use Bobcad/CAM Ver 16.1

> 2. G-Code Translation from design : software used

essentially same as above.

> 3. G-Code to machine control signals : software/hardware used

EMC

> 4. Actual drive components : drivers/motors used

Servo to Go (classic version) 8-channel motion control card
Pico Systems PWM servo amplifiers
(see : http://www.artsci.wustl.edu/~jmelson/servo.html )

> 5. Machine controlled : (i.e. Bridgeport mill, etc.)

Bridgeport 9 x 34" round-ram turret mill, updated with 1J head,
ancient Excellon/GE monomatic X and Y axis drives with precision-ground
ballscrews, and my own Z axis drive.

Jon