DeskCNC

Response to Message #88379 from Fred Smith of IMService

Fred, thanks again for the thorough answers to my post in the series
"EMC and Taig w/ MicroProto and DeskCNC". Can't wait to get my PC
so that I can load DeskCNC and get started. Your posts have been so
informative that I thought that others getting started in CNC would
want them as a referance. So I'm listing their Message #s below.
Again thanks for all the valuable input.

88317, 88331, 88335, and 88379

Bill Perun

--- In CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO@yahoogroups.com, "Fred Smith" <imserv@...>
wrote:

>
> --- In CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO@yahoogroups.com, "William Perun Sr"
> <wperun1@> wrote:
>
> > So you do not see anything wrong with loading Norton anti virus
> > software, Office 2000, Outlook Express, and Internet Explorer on
> the
> > PC that I will be dedicating to DeskCNC and running the machine
> > with. It is a new HP Compaq dx2200. I will not have the PC on
> the
> > internet, and will turn off Norton.
>
> All these applications will work in conjunction with DeskCNC. I
> usually have 3 or 4 similarly configured machines at the model
> engineering shows that we attend. However, All these programs

can

> phone home and check for updates. TURN OFF this feature for all

of

> them, and only permit manual software updates.
>
> One you did not mention is Adope acrobat reader. Be very careful
> with this one as it is particularly abusive of your privacy.
>
> > What is
> > the advantage of the serial port approach to the parallel

printer

> > cable port approach?
> >
>
> Stability in the windows environment, offloads machine control
> function to a fast, dedicated processor. known 5v ttl. precise
> control of pulse width and step rates up to 125,000 steps per

second.

>
> Runs great on just about any dumpster pc, designed for win 98 or
> later.
>
> > Thank you for discussing 4th axis machining in Message #88331.

I

> > have 4 Gecko driver cards integrated into the KDN Tool Pinacle
> > control electronics. Will I be swapping the Y axis driver with
> the
> > rotary axis motor, as you described - when running a design that
> was
> > done in a plane like I had mentioned?
>
> No, just run your "4 axis" code. Technically it will probably be

2

> 1/2 axis, but the rotary and the fact that 4 axes might be used
> within the same program usually gets it the 4 axis handle.
>
> Vector Cad-Cam has a similar wrapping function. Here is a project
> from the CNC workshop in 2005 using a rotary table (doll head):
>
> http://www.imsrv.com/cncworkshop/
>
> The head was scanned in the flat, the flat stl file was opened in
> Vector, 3d toolpaths were applied and then wrapped in Vector-Cad.
> Vector Cam then created the rotary axis G-code.
>
> Fred Smith - IMService
> http://www.cadcamcadcam.com/hobby
>