Please forgive these thoughts, not being a programmer packagethey may not be as sensible as I think. I have a job to use my old cnc mill again and have the...
Adrian, Not as good as a matched simulator but two thoughts spring to mind. Make a custom post for your cam software which uses more generic codes (rather than...
... Hi, Adrian: Since we're talking about software, everything is possible. However, consider this - a lot of folks have written G-Code to use CNCPro's version...
... structure ... Hi Jerry and Jeff in the previous post. I tried to do a bit of a search on RS274 and see a general trend to some new form of integrated...
Adrian, It sounds like you are hand writing your gcode, or at least doing a lot of manual editing. I almost exclusively will model in 3D and then use MeshCam...
... doing a lot ... customise the ... stuff, and ... written ... MeshCam) ... having ... programs ... Jeff, yes I use mostly hand written code or cut and paste...
... Have a look at Freemill. It's free. Imports .stl's etc, and generates toolpaths, g-code. I downloaded it the other day, but have not installed and tested...
... Here's simulator, that's use for Plasma cutting and can be used with CNCpro. There is a Free Demo to. Check it out at: http://www.cad2gcode.com/torch Bob A...
Greetings all; I recently purchased a mill- it's a RF-30 type bench mill with "J&S Products" controller board and drivers with 640 oz/in bipolar steppers. This...
... It uses 2, 3, 4, 5 for step X Y Z A and 6, 7, 8, 9 for direction X Y Z A. You can change them through the setup menu. ... It's all open loop. so it expects...
Will, I'm confused too. The CNCPro program that this group is about was a product of Yeager Automation and was never included with any machine packages as far...
... CNC Pro was also a product of the Ahha group long before the subject of this group, later it was changed to Ahha Artisan. That business went out of...
Rich; Shortly after Doug Yeager released CNCpro another program became available under the same name. IIRC, it was a project of some university student on the...
... I now know who to come and ask when I next try to get EMC to work. I use Linux at home and have done so hoping to gain enough knowledge on running EMC...
... That would be an instance of the blind leading the blind! :) -- Jerry Jankura Strongsville, Ohio So many toys.... So little time.... [Non-text portions of...
... I can't help but point out that this is _the_ reason why only free software solutions are economically viable in the long term. In the summer of 1995 my...
THANKS for the responses guys, here's some additional information: CNC Pro 2.25 Helpfile says to call "J&S Products" at (714) 552-1158 Non-working number and...
First of all, can you snap some pictures of the motors, driver boards & controller boards? That would at least help get us oriented. Second, is this a Sherline...
... You'd probably see a set of commands transferring back and forth between the computer and the motor drive pulse generators. It wouldn't make a whole lot of...
Here's my guess at the definitions.... ... 5 volt power supply ... Enable ... Unknown.... ... Direction pulse output to motor drive ... Step level output to...
Ahhh, Jerry- that's kind of what I figured, but I did not figure out SIN or H/F, and I thought 1/2 was perhaps half step? Motors are as follows: Eastern Air...
... Remember -- it's only a guess on my part, not gospel ... Those sound like NEMA size 34 motors ... I don't think the "low priced spread" motor drives will...
... windoze2000 Pro Compaq. ..... In Dos , Win95 , Win98 and WinMe you have no user rights so anibody can acces the printer ports. But in Win2K , WinXP or...
... I'll second Jerry's opinion on this. If we can figure out the current drive's interface, then using those until they fail would be the way to go. I wonder...
... Hi, Matt: Did the Ahha systems stuff work under Windows XP? A simple pulse generator as you mentioned above would not be immune to instabilities due to the...
I repaired a box that ran the other CNCPro. It had dual L298 chips that were driven by PIC type chips. The transformer was tiny and it had NEMA42 motors. Two...
... Was there any similarity between this and Yeager's software? I always wondered if they shared the same roots or if the name was just a coincidence. Doug...
The Program was on a 486 machine running Window 3.1 When you clicked the icon it would load the CNCPro in Dos mode. The CNC Junior had no home switches. The...
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