Newbie- retrofit on a cinci arrow 750 vmc.

[chaz6966]

would mach 3 work on a retrofit for a old cincinati vertical machining center.
with a 21 station tool changer. and only 3 axis plus a forth rotaty..
it has the option now but i dont have the rotary table now anyway.
the head moves up and down to change tools.

[kcho]

You must put a CNC. It´s an interesting machine. If you can uses the servo system you only have to buy the CNC. your best choice is A fagor 8035 for three axis, or 8055-8040 for four axis.

Carlos

[PoppaBear10]

Mach3 will work on that machine just fine, and at 1/10th the cost of a fagor.

Check the mach support site www.machsupport.com, look under Forums, then look under User machines. You will see 100s of pics and videos of Mills with ATCs axis may be 3,4,5 or even six on some of the BIG planers with W knees. There are vids of Lathes running anywhere from 2-5 axis with ATCs. Plug many many more machines. You can drive Highend Drives with External motion cards if you want as well, like Galil for Analog drives, and Smooth Stepper for Step and Dir drives. Plus you have Absoulte control over the customization of mach3, for Screens, Soft PLC (Brians), Wizards, Plugins, Custom Macros, a modbus in where you can control intellegent IO upto 2048 on TCP and 256 on Serial.........

There is not a control on the market ANYWHERE that gives the users the kind of customizing power that Mach3 does......

Scott