Re: high-performance EDM power supply - software

--- In CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO@yahoogroups.com, "eexgs" <eexgs@n...> wrote:

> Well I'm in!
>
> I offer my limited electronics knowledge e.g. a modern electronics
> degree :) as well as the knowledge of some friends who do power
> electronics and spend a lot of time shoving big volts and amps at
> massive motors and design the controllers to do so.
>
> As for software, once you register TurboCNC then you get the source
> code which might be modified for wire edm, reversing the tool path
> would involve just flipping the directions of z and y plus other
> stuff. For a sink machine then you could start from scratch

assuming

> single axis.
>
> I say don't worry about the software and get the design underway.
>
> Graham

I am not sure what software will do such a tool path reversal, but
one good thing is that it only needs X and Y.

I see that a look ahead design, software that reads the next 5 or so
codes and blends them from a smoother cut around courners
(eleminatess stops and starts) would be part of the software, and
although it would need to be able to reverse entirely out of a
toolpath, it would only need to react quickly into the last few spots
it was in, probably less than 5 of the last moves.

Another option, and this one may be much harder, it so has the
software know where an open area might be and be able to move into
that.

Dave