Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] Replace Heidenhein w/ EMC?

Jon,
Haidenhain is awfull expencive and of very good quality,
and does have good service and spareparts, so you might
give it a shot to get it running as it is.
Good Luck
Sven Peter

Jon Anderson wrote:

> Have a good friend, an auto mechanic, that loves machining and I've been
> helping him put together a machine shop for play mostly. (though we are
> discussing some ideas for products and a mutual mfg venture)
> When he wanted a CNC mill I suggested finding a dead Boss controled BP
> and refitting with Ahha as about the cheapest and fastest way to go.
> Then one of my customers decided to get rid of their CNC mill at a
> giveaway price, $2800 with tool holders and CAM. I don't recall the
> exact model control, but it's a Heidenhein control in a honkin' huge
> box. Down the road he'd like to go to a PC based control, and I
> mentioned just having recieved the BDI disk.
> Would like to know if EMC is capable of giving roughly equal performance
> in terms of speed and accuracy. Existing machine (Wells Index) uses
> linear scales in addition to motor encoders, can EMC use these as well
> or should they be offed with the Heidenhein control?
> This is a no-hurry project, probably take the two of us a year to figure
> out the interface issues... Just want to know if he's going to be able
> to rapid and feed at roughly equal rates to what he has now, and if not,
> how much will he have to give up?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Jon
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