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- Fri Apr 26, 2024 4:06 pm
- Forum: Machining Strategies. Work Holding, Tool Path, Cutters, Feeds/Speeds etc.
- Topic: Issue with outside frame milling
- Replies: 12
- Views: 793
Re: Issue with outside frame milling
Do you have cutter comp turned on in the wrong direction? Posting your Intercon file would let us see.
- Thu Apr 25, 2024 4:51 pm
- Forum: Centroid Acorn CNC Controller
- Topic: Enable outputs on Acorn
- Replies: 9
- Views: 633
Re: Enable outputs on Acorn
If you disable drives on an Acorn, you will have to re-home everytime you re-enable the drives. Acorn is an open-loop system.
- Thu Apr 25, 2024 7:06 am
- Forum: Centroid Acorn CNC Controller
- Topic: Remote heartbeat
- Replies: 6
- Views: 603
Re: Remote heartbeat
Some in the past have used fiber optic light guides to reposition the heartbeat.
- Wed Apr 24, 2024 11:19 am
- Forum: Centroid Acorn CNC Controller
- Topic: Homebuilt tool touchoff block(resolved)
- Replies: 5
- Views: 551
Re: Homebuilt tool touchoff block
Are you sure your tool is grounded through the spindle? If you have ceramic bearings, you'll need a separate ground wire with an alligator clip for your tool.
- Tue Apr 23, 2024 12:48 pm
- Forum: Centroid Acorn CNC Controller
- Topic: why is my origin inverted? <resolved>
- Replies: 6
- Views: 281
Re: why is my origin inverted?
Most likely your machine axis are setup incorrectly. On a mill, X+ is the SPINDLE moving towards the right. Y+ is the SPINDLE moving towards the column, and Z+ is the SPINDLE moving up. The mistake people commonly make is even though the spindle doesn't actually move in X and Y, the axis are set up ...
- Sun Apr 21, 2024 1:18 pm
- Forum: Centroid Hickory CNC Controller
- Topic: Hardinge CHNC II+ Hickory LeadShine EL7 Retrofit
- Replies: 99
- Views: 11240
Re: Hardinge CHNC II+ Hickory LeadShine EL7 Retrofit
You may find that you will always need a test cut. There is no way the probe can account for tool deflection and cutting forces.
- Fri Apr 19, 2024 7:02 pm
- Forum: Centroid Acorn CNC Controller
- Topic: Touch probe
- Replies: 29
- Views: 1561
Re: Touch probe
It looks like to me some calipers and radius gages would get that into CAD much faster.
- Thu Apr 18, 2024 8:49 pm
- Forum: Centroid Acorn CNC Controller
- Topic: VFD control voltage <signal isolator solution>
- Replies: 12
- Views: 681
Re: VFD control voltage
Well, the fact that you get 10V without the VFD connect pretty much narrows it down to the VFD loading the analog out. You might try a signal isolator:
https://www.amazon.com/Isolator-Insulat ... B09TJTCDQ8
https://www.amazon.com/Isolator-Insulat ... B09TJTCDQ8
- Wed Apr 17, 2024 1:55 pm
- Forum: Acorn CNC Plasma
- Topic: Torchmate accumove 2 conversion
- Replies: 52
- Views: 6485
Re: Torchmate accumove 2 conversion
Acorn will use the steps per rev first before the revs per inch. So if you tell it to move a certain distance and you have these settings wrong it will default to the steps per rev that you have entered in the wizard... Almost there. Acorn operates in steps. People operate in inches or mm for those...
- Wed Apr 17, 2024 10:40 am
- Forum: Acorn CNC Plasma
- Topic: Torchmate accumove 2 conversion
- Replies: 52
- Views: 6485
Re: Torchmate accumove 2 conversion
What do you have your motor steps set to on the drives? In the Wizard?