Ok so the Unimatic manual doesnt tell us anything about the protocol the machine uses only which pins do what. Off the top of my head 3 control the motors, one is an earth and another 2 allow the machine/pc to know if ifs ok to send a signal.
Andy, if the simplest way forward were to happen and Unimatic detailed us how the protocol works, how long do you imagine it would take to write a driver with the help of a developer? Im asking as im part of a two man team trying to get a cnc-lathe up and running in an art school. Ive been helping since christmas and the other guy has been working on this for 3 years. Weve exhausted almost all avenues with windows and we thought we might have an easy way out with Emc and Linux. Were both almost tearing our hair out here.
And once the driver gets hypothetically written weve got al long way to go to get it all working.
Anyway after that rant i hope you can help out. Cheers for the help so far. |