Centroid Community CNC Support Forum

Does it make the 8khz cheep if you decouple the ball screw, but leave the servo mounted on the lathe?

Have you tried swapping the servos to confirm they both cheep when in the same situation?

I'm happy to see Centroid is not going to a subscription model. It would seem like an odd choice for a CNC controller. Sure companies can get away with it for CAD or CAM software, but I'm unaware of any CNC controller companies doing that. Subscription models for specific hardware based systems tend ...

On the CNC12 side (blue background, left side of the screen) nearly everything is done with the keyboard.

On the Virtual Control Panel (VCP) (buttons on gray background, right side of screen) there are no keyboard equivalents, but a touch screen works well.

If you have minimal vision, and you do ...

Since this is only happening when standing still, you could try messing with the ZEROSPD setting and reducing holding current. If the drive is dithering at idle, that might help.

You may also be dealing with the natural mechanical resonance frequency of your machine forming a sympathetic harmonic ...

I think leadshine uses motion studio, so grab the motion studio manual and start reading up on resonance tunning. There should be an automated tool in motion studio for this, but you might have to tweak manually.

You are specifically looking to use the notch filter/s to reduce the high frequency ...

My work is looking into purchasing an ATrump AV32 with centroid oak control. The machine does not come with glass scales, so we are thinking about having them added for closed loop feedback for motion control (not just DRO readout) after we have the machine in house.

I am not very familiar with the ...

You could try contacting a spindle rebuilder who might be willing to you in the right direction. A quick google came up with a few companies that do rebuilds on Bridgeport spindles. I imagine they would be the ones in the know on something this specific. Might even be able to sell you the parts you ...

If you have a Bellville stack, like you figured out, its a petal or ball bearing/pull stud arrangement. The only other changer I have seen that is not a BT/CAT/HSK, but still uses a Bellville stack is the tormach setup where it uses a R8 collet as a gripper.

I'm not familiar with the exact setup ...

The other guys here know way more then I do about the centroid controllers, but my understanding is that Hickory and Oak (and Acorn6 I think?) are proper closed loop controller. You can use scales and have realtime position feedback. The regular 4 axis Acorn relies on the servo/drive to do exactly ...

Only available in North America.

EDU suite in Germany will not generate g-code.

In my day job I have compared Mastercam mill turn with fusion.

Mastercam offer was 35000€ +3700€/pa service for use on one PC only

Basic Fusion mill turn 400€/pa from any PC in the world one person at a time, 1800 ...