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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   
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   > 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.   
      
      
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   Bob La Londe   
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