Centroid Community CNC Support Forum

It isn't for the production of a product or a part, it's the creation of a process. Shawn Brown at SBSOLO Manufacturing in videos for Practical Machinist has outlined his methodology for setting up tools. Here's my best attempt at re-explaining it: He basically has 180 tool length offsets, one ...

I'm incorporating a 320 tool gantry-style tool matrix. I've checked Centroid CNC12 Mill software specs, lists of parameters, a few other places... I'm not seeing how to store 320 tools and offsets in the CNC12 Mill software, it appears the maximum at this time is currently 200.

1) What would it ...

I'm rebuilding an entire VF2 from scratch and upgrading it to 5-axis.
I want to put money where it will do the most good. (Every area where I spend less, is an opportunity to spend more elsewhere.)
Of course 3 brand new C5 or even C3 ground ballscrews would be best.
I'm running Aikron linear ...

I have a tight installation with a Leadshine ELM 2 motor, 1.3Kw, 130mm, model number: ELM2H-1300LD130F-H

I'd like to remove the motor's (aviation-style connector I think it's called? Name?) power cable connector and attach/splice the power cable's conductors directly to the motor's power wires that ...

I'm loving the price of Aikron scales for my vertical mill Hickory Retrofit. My gut is telling me that for the 1/10 the price of Accurite, Heidenhain, Fagor, etc... I should adjust my expectations, but I see several posts about people using them on AcornSix projects. I haven't found any posts on ...

Of all the approved Hickory servo systems: Yaskawa Sigma 7, Glentek Gamma series, Estun Summa, Leadshine EL7 and EL8, Inovance SV660N, and Delta ASDA-B3-E and the ASDA-B3A-E, Teknic Clearpath EtherCat Which systems are going to be the most affordable? I need around 1.5 Kw give or take, and minimum 5 ...

For a 5-axis milling machine, all things being equal, which controller would provide the best machined surface-finish quality for injection mold cavity work, and why exactly would that be?

1) Hickory controller running Sigma-7 drives via EtherCat, with external/secondary encoders on all 5 axis.
2 ...