Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] Re: Need Help!! Dyna 2400

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----- Original Message -----
From: Hugh Currin <currinh@...>
To: <CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Sunday, February 04, 2001 5:04 AM
Subject: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] Re: Need Help!! Dyna 2400


> Elliot:
>
> At 06:53 AM 2/4/01 +0000, you wrote:
> >I am a student at Auburn University who has been given the task of
> >making mastercam generate output for a Dyna 2400 vert milling
> >machine. I have the Dyna communication utility V5.2, and I should be
> >receiving a version of mastercam in the next couple of days. I have
> >heard that the problems that I will encounter are that the mastercam
> >software might not generate an output which is usuable for
> >transmission to the Dyna, and that I will exceed the 900 line code
> >limit. Do these problems sound logical, and what should I do about
> >them?
>
> I am interested in hearing of your progress, we have one of these Dyna
2400
> at Oregon Institute of Technology where I work. It's not working and we'd
> like to bring it back to life.
>
> As I understand it, which could be very wrong, MasterCAM generates G-Code
> which is not the conversational code the Dyna understands. We also have a
> larger Dyna 4xxx (?), not table top, which is running. For it we use a
> conversion program running on a PC which takes G-Code in and ouputs Dyna
> code which is downloaded via serial port (?) to the Dyna 4xxx. This is a
> pain so we've purchased a new controller for the larger Dyna which
> understands G-Code although we haven't had time to take the Dyna off line
> and retrofit it.
>
> You might be able to find a conversion program from G-Code to Dyna if
there
> is a way to dump the code into the 2400. We called Dyna trying to get
> manuals on the 2400 and were told that Dyna doesn't have these anymore. I
> find this hard to believe but it's hard to buy a manual they say they
don't
> have. :-(
>
> I think we'll try to, or get the electronic tech to, figure out how to
> patch into the stepper drivers while bypassing the Dyna 2400
> controller. If we can't I think we'll get new stepper drivers. Either
way
> we'll bring up EMC on a P100 and use this to drive the 2400. It would be
> far better than the Dyna controller and EMC understands G-Code.
>
> Another long term project, just what I need. Please let me know how you
> progress.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Hugh Currin
> Klamath Falls, OR
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