Re: DRO or not

Hi Malte,

There are a few things you need to considder.

first, you did not mention the machine type.

If money is your major concern, wait and do it right, one time, not
over and over in ever increaseing quality and ever increasing costs.

if you have access to surplus components, then check the dro files in
the files section. you may be able to do a DRO for time and labor
with little cost.

if you are looking at servo's, considder making the mounting brackets
and using encoders now, for use on the servo's later.

If you are not involved in machineing, it may be better to actually
start cutting parts to know why you NEED either in the first place.
There are quite a few projects that do NOT lend themselves to CNC.
And not all machining requires DRO's. we lived for over a century
without digital readouts and did things like turbine engines, moon
rockets and precision watches.

Good tools make things easier for those that can do. they do not
substutite for being able to do it in the first place. OK, space age
tools allow us to do space age work.

imho

Dave

--- In CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO@yahoogroups.com, "J. Malte Stoeckhert
<malte.stoeckhert@i...>" <malte.stoeckhert@i...> wrote:

> Hi there,
>
> I'm considering to get into machining and trying to figure out if
> adding DRO makes sense at all or a later CNC upgrade is the way to
> go/wait...?
>
> Any comments?
>
> Malte