RE: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] Re: Programming Slo-Syn SS20001 with SS2000D6

You can use CNC manually, as well. You type commands into the MDI line, or else jog the axis for cutting using the keyboard.

And just like cutting manually, you do need to advance an axis a bit in order to take a cut. You can do this in CNC, either inputting a number to advance by, or nudging it using keyboard jog until it looks good.

I like it because it requires me to put a number in, and then it goes there. I can't tell you how many times I ruined apart using manual control(before CNC) by misreading a machine dial.


Andy Wander

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--- In CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO@yahoogroups.com, Jon Elson <elson@...> wrote:
> a part you spent some time on. I'm pretty sure you could do this with Mach,
> I am a LinuxCNC user, and I know you can do it with that program.
>
> Once you have seen CNC work, you will almost certainly not want to go back!

I'm new to this forum, but without even seaching the archives I know enough not to ask which is better, Mach3 or LinuxCNC. I only referred to that program as a generic name for higher level control software. I haven't research this myself enough to know which I might prefer. Having said that, if someone could tell me that what I wanted to do was a lot easier in one of these programs than the other, that would be very useful information (and it wouldn't necessarily imply that one program was "better" overall, only that it would be preferred for this one specialized application).

Most of my work with my lathe and milling machine is related to my interest in restoring old motorcycles. Much of this type of work actually is better performed manually. For example, when turning a brake drum I don't know ahead of time how much will need to be removed. I could spend time accurately measuring how oval a drum is, then program that in, then have the lathe cut it. Or, just cut it manually.

Of course, if I already owned CNC machines, I could use them manually when manual was faster, or turn on the CNC when that was better. But, I don't. However, for the purpose that prompted this thread, CNC is clearly the way to go.



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