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From: Bob La Londe <none@none.com99>
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Subject: Re: Yet Another New Machine
Date: Thu, 31 Oct 2024 10:48:01 -0700
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On 10/31/2024 4:39 AM, Jim Wilkins wrote:
> "Bob La Londe"  wrote in message news:vfuc8v$2ap2c$1@dont-email.me...
> 
> ...
> The thing that excites me most about it (Onefinity Elite Foreman) is the
> Masso G3 Touch controller it comes with. ...
> Bob La Londe
> ------------------------------
> I began designing machine control panels with paper drawings to be made 
> on a shear, brake and Strippit punch. CAD/CAM and plasma cutting is 
> quite an advance but I must say the old way was easy to learn and worked 
> pretty well. I was earning a living with just a pencil.
> 
> Learning the old manual methods has been useful when I needed to modify 
> existing equipment that was too awkward or flexible to do on a machine.
> 
> I also designed relay ladder logic for actual relays, before PLCs 
> arrived. I began circuit board design with black tape or a laundry 
> marker and advanced through computerized design and simulation as they 
> developed. The electronics I learned in the Army used individual 
> transistors, then I closely followed the growth progress of ICs through 
> FPGAs that could self-configure to match a CAD schematic. The computer 
> revolution has been interesting to observe and participate in.
> 


First off I have "built up" a couple CNC control systems.  Designed 
might be a strong word, but assembled from assorted "black boxes" would 
not.  The thing is the Masso G3 control does "almost" everything in one 
finished unit for not much more than I could buy the parts, and it 
appears to be code compatible with what I am already using so the post 
processor would need little or no modification.  Yes I have modified the 
post processors for all of my different machines.  Most are just minor 
tweaks.  Actually I rewrote the macros more than modified the post on 
the Mach controlled machines, so except for physical capability the code 
is cross compatible on all of those.

Well if I was cheap I could build a controller a lot cheaper, but I'm 
tired of tweaking machines for weeks to get them to run right.


-- 
Bob La Londe
CNC Molds N Stuff

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