From: clare@snyder.on.ca   
      
   On Thu, 31 Oct 2024 10:48:01 -0700, Bob La Londe    
   wrote:   
      
   >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   
   Sounds like a friend's old Standard Modern CNC lathe I futzed around   
   with for months years ago. It woul jump in and out of calibration   
   randomly. It might make 50 good parts then go small or large for a   
   couple, then MAYBE go back to good, or maybe not. After going through   
   grounds, sheilding, wire and cable routing and who knows what all else   
   I got the productivity up by about 500% but it could still not be   
   trusted so it sat in the corner for YEARS. Switching from rotary   
   encoders to a glass scale and a better controller would likely have   
   made a decent machine out of it but the manufacturer had gone "tits   
   up" by then and he was just SO over it.   
      
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