Wow!!, and I thought I was alone in TN.
I live in Briceville, TN (about 30 minutes north of Knoxville/Oakridge).
How about we Tennesseans start a "E. TN machine club"?? (or just TN).
bdillard: I have extensive experience with Mach 3 (both mill and lathe), I am familiar with how to hook up, program and run DL05's and DL06's, through the mod-bus.
I can also help you hook up your Gecko's 320. I have a 5 axis Mill, and 2 Axis lathe. (see pics of my set up under "PoppaBear10's" pics, or look under the Shoptask thread. I have a 3 in 1 that I converted to CNC control, and have added a "4th" and 4th/5th axis trunion table. I can help you build your control cabnet, and tune your Mach set up for your machine.
I am a Hobbie machine shop and BATF NFA and SOT manufacture, (do other part prototyping as well. If you need someone to help you make some parts, I would be glad to help if you need some stuff made for your machine).
CAD: I use Rhino, OneCNC, Turbocad, (limited exp with Autocad, and solid works mostly file manipulation to get it to import correctly into my OneCNC).
CAM: I use OneCNC XR2 Mill Expert (with 4/5th), and OneCNC XR lathe Pro.
About the equipment you asked above, if you know the protocols that they use to communicate, and those protocols are compatible with Modbus, PLC's, or can be addressed with IO from a
VB script. We may be able to do what you want.
If you, and the others on this thread are interested in starting up a "club", or just meeting at some point to learn from each other let me know.
you can give me a ring at: 865-426-9728 after 7pm weekdays, or on weekends.
If you need sheet metal work, I can bend/break/cut upto 18ga, that is less than 40" too.
If you are going to the 2cd annual CNC workshop, I will be giving a class on the use of OneCNC Mill and Lathe.
Scott