Re: Still a little unclear

Roger,

I feel that there might be a few more people in the forum in our shoes.
I am not afraid to admit that I don't have as good an understanding
about the CNC machine as I would like, but hey, that's the main focus of
this group, to help those like myself and you to understand. Believe me
Roger, the help that I have gotten from this group since I joined May
1st., has far outweighed anything that I could have brought from any
webpage. You can't get the same interaction or networking on a website
that you can here with the actual members having their own setups and
experiences. Yes, I have an extensive background in manual
machining(tool maker), and manual and CAD drafting, but left all that to
go into commercial aviation. Now I want to enjoy this field again with
some friends making model plane parts with a CNC CO2 powered laser
cutter, and a small CNC mill to machine the 3D blanks for fiber glassing
of parts.

I am glad that I have found this group and will be a member here for a
long time to come. There is still a wealth of knowledge that I need to
learn about to get the results that I am aiming for from my system(s) to
come, and this I feel will be the place that I will learn that
expertise.

Glad I have met most of you, thanks again.

Regards,
Don Hughes


Roger Mason wrote:

>
> From: Roger Mason <rogerd@...>
>
> Hi,
>
> Like 124 others I have been lurking and maybe like the others,
> getting awfully confused over a lot of the terms and names of programs
> and bits of hardware that have been used recently. This posting has
> been partly spurred on by Bill's request for us lurkers to put in an
> appearance!
>
> When I saw Don Hughes posting of 19 May, I thought "Aha -
> someone else like me", although Don is obviously further advanced
> than I am being familiar with G code.
>
> Then I saw Jon's posting of the 20th. This really started to
> make the bits come together.
>
> I particularly liked the:
>
> > (in your computer) CAD program outputs DXF file >>> DXF file converted to
> > GCode >>> GCode to DeskNC >>> DeskNC to parallel port pins >>> (now we move
> > out of the computer) >>> parallel port pins to driver board/amplifier >>>
> > driver board/amp to stepper motors >>> stepper motors to translation
> > mechanism in your machine
> >
> I wonder could someone build on this and indicate how the various
> programs and proprietry names that have been floating about fit into
> this basic scheme of things.
>
> Maybe it would need a more diagramatic approach, which would lend
> itself to a graphical web page, that could, I am sure, be posted
> somewhere.
>
> I don't know whether such an approach would help others, but I am
> sure that I would have a better insight into the whole business with
> such an over-view.
>
> The only problem with getting this better insight, I will be keen
> to get going and collect some of the hard ware to have a stab - but I
> don't think there is too much in the way of second hand stuff here in
> Hong Kong. Maybe I will have to look around during my trip to U.K.
> this summer.
>
> Cheers
>
> Roger Mason, in Hong Kong
>
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