speaking of HPGL...
Posted by
Joe Vicars
on 2000-02-11 05:41:10 UTC
I know a person who has a Roland PNC-3000. It is a "high" end
mini-mill, (servos, on board jog, high speed spindle) for those of you
not familiar you can see it's newest cousin at
www.rolanddg.com/products/pnc32.html
He may be willing to lend this thing to me on the promise that I
could get it running in full 3d. My understanding is that it will plug
and play directly like a plotter which would make it ok as a PCP
prototype-er or drilling machine, but pretty limited and I'm really not
interested if I can't figure out the "Z". Its age is about 1990-ish and
speaks HPGL through the parallel port.
Does anyone have any experience with one of these machines, or know
if it is possible to get it speaking G-Code? Any thoughts or help would
be appreciated.
P.S. it is also for sale if anyone's interested, but be warned, he
wants a lot for it.
mini-mill, (servos, on board jog, high speed spindle) for those of you
not familiar you can see it's newest cousin at
www.rolanddg.com/products/pnc32.html
He may be willing to lend this thing to me on the promise that I
could get it running in full 3d. My understanding is that it will plug
and play directly like a plotter which would make it ok as a PCP
prototype-er or drilling machine, but pretty limited and I'm really not
interested if I can't figure out the "Z". Its age is about 1990-ish and
speaks HPGL through the parallel port.
Does anyone have any experience with one of these machines, or know
if it is possible to get it speaking G-Code? Any thoughts or help would
be appreciated.
P.S. it is also for sale if anyone's interested, but be warned, he
wants a lot for it.