Makino Interfacing

[Professorwiz]

Hello All,
I need to interface a encoder so it shows up and displays numbers on a Makino Screen. We are going to use an absolute incoder that's on a rotary table and would like it to display the angle on the screen. I know this is abit much but I'd like to see if anybody has done this before, without using the Makino premade rotarys. We've done a unit with our Mazak that the unit shows the position in a little box on top of the machine, but seeing the Makino's are so advanced I'd be suprised if you couldn't show somekind of extra data on the screen.

[Al_The_Man]

Who makes the control on the Makino?
Al.

[Professorwiz]

It doesn't really say, it says Professional 3 on the front cover but it came with Fanuc programming manuals for the series 18 controller so I would assume it's a Fanuc control.

[psychomill]

Pro 3 are all Fanuc based controls with an added top. Al, it should be relatively close to the 18i.