Greetings,

The Smithy Machines Yahoo group is alive & well in 2009!:

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Ned

Ned,
Where can we find a support group for the smithy bulldozer?

Greetings,

Smithy didn't have those very long and there doesn't see to be anything available.

Ned

Ned,
Where can we find a support group for the smithy bulldozer?

me and my brother just purchased an older (1983?) smithy 1224????

lathe/mill

this thing has been upgraded beyond belief from a manual to CNC , the probelm is im sure now since this thing was CNC'ized there has to be a simpler cnc software/editor?? any thoughts?

it has a gecko drive and winnc?????? software????
im supposed to learn the ins n outs of this thing so any direction would be greatly appreciated

Greetings,

The Gecko drives are good!

Unfortunately, I am not familiar wth WINNC.

My Smithy Granite does not have CNC.

I have a Sieg Super X3 (Grizzly G0619) that has had a CNC conversion and I use Mach3 for the CNC controller software.

http://www.home-machine-shop.com/X3_Mill/Super_X3_Mill.htm

http://www.home-machine-shop.com/CNC_Part/

http://www.machsupport.com/

For simple jobs, I just enter G code in Mach3 and run it.

For more complex jobs I use Visual Mill to generate the G code and then run it in Mach3.

http://www.mecsoft.com/visualmill.shtml

Did you receive any documentation for the software included with the machine?

Have you researched the software provider's website?

Down loading and reading the Mach3 manual might help provide a better understanding of CNC.

http://www.machsupport.com/docs/Mach3Mill_Install_Config.pdf

You might consider joining the Smithy Machines group:

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/smithy-machines/

Ned
http://www.home-machine-shop.com





me and my brother just purchased an older (1983?) smithy 1224????

lathe/mill

this thing has been upgraded beyond belief from a manual to CNC , the probelm is im sure now since this thing was CNC'ized there has to be a simpler cnc software/editor?? any thoughts?

it has a gecko drive and winnc?????? software????
im supposed to learn the ins n outs of this thing so any direction would be greatly appreciated