Centroid Community CNC Support Forum

Thank you for the compliment. Yes, videos do take quite some time.

I'd loved to do a video on a lathe, but my wife is giving me the "not another tool" look.

Folks, I made a video demonstrating a successful integration of Rhino, RhinoCAM, and the Acorn Controller. As far as I know, this seems to be a first and it went without a hitch. RhinoCAM can post a Centroid G-Code file and the Acorn sucked it right in and went to work. Pretty cool. I've already don...

Nice job. Let us know once you get it going.

I'm impressed. Well done.

OK Acorn DIY Experts,

Anyone up for converting this ole dog to CNC? Who wants to earn the 2018 Master Acorn CNC Conversion Award?

Just needs some lube.

Mike

Great. I think for the extra dollars, you do get a nice jump in work envelope and rigidity. Touch base with me when you are ready for the conversion.

Mike who made your kit? I did not pick up the PM 25 till tuesday Maybe move up to PM 727. Thanks John I made my kit myself. I picked the PM-727 for its larger capacity, especially the z-axis (a vise and chuck take up a lot of height). The machine is about 500 lbs, so it has good stiffness. Also, th...

Mike you did a nice job. How do your like your mill? Enjoying the learning part of things? Marty Thanks. The mill is pretty good for the price. Good size, decent accuracy, not too noisey (hardened gears). Spindle speed is fine as a manual mill, but may be a little slow for CNC (1760 RPM's). The way...

I have the bigger brother PM-727 for which I've converted to CNC using the Acorn and Teknic drives. The Acorn absolutely rocks. Even though the Acorn is not a full closed loop controller, I've dome some precision CNC work that measured less than 0.5 thousandth error. The Centroid fellas really did t...

Unless you are in incremental mode, the jog will move for the perceived duration of your mouse click, which is quantized by Windows and therefore can be rather arbitrary. Use the incremental mode to jog for better precision. For the best precision, go to the MDI menu and type your intended coordinat...