Newbe question looking for a what controller to use.
Looking for help. Ihave started a build using twin ballscrews to move the carriage. Using two motors I need a card that can runthese. I am looking recommendations acontroller. One that I can marry the twotogether to run the carriage.
If there is a name to use for this set up please let me know.
The plan is to use it for Plasma cutting and light routerwork.
Photos on the build will be posted soon.
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Re: Newbe question looking for a what controller to use.
Your axis would likely be referenced as "XYYZ" if you're doubling the Y axis. LinuxCNC handles this imperfectly and in a complicated fashion; Mach3 does it simply and elegantly. The generic Chinese "5-axis Mach3 Interface board" handles either Mach3 our LinuxCNC, if you're looking for a PC/parallel port based controller.
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Re: Newbe question looking for a what controller to use.
Are you looking for stepper drives? The "controller" is the software/hardware that runs the machine, but it doesn't run motors by itself.
And your talking about a slaved axis.
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Re: Newbe question looking for a what controller to use.
I know I have the terms wrong.
The two screws that move the gantry will have to move together. (y axis?)
Being new I spent money on motors and cards to drive them. The Chinese board the is USB to the computer will not work with Mach 3 and the software that came with it will not run two Nemas as needed for my design.
So I looking so for the card that sends the signals to the cards the control the Nemas.
Thanks for the help.
Re: Newbe question looking for a what controller to use.
The board I was referencing does work with Mach3 -- in fact, it has "Mach3" printed right on the circuit boardOriginally Posted by outlawspeeder
It's this one:
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0...?ie=UTF8&psc=1
That board is everywhere, under many different names, but all made in the same factory in China. It will work with Mach3, using a parallel port -- but ONLY on Windows 32-bit installations. There are no Mach3 drivers supported for 64-bit Windows -- I've already barked up that tree...
Mach3 will use the term "slave axis" or XYYZ config. LinuxCNC will only refer to XYYZ config, but does not really implement the "slave" concept. It can have either two independent motors receiving the same Y-axis step and direction signals (ugly, error-prone), or you can earn a degree in computer science by studying and implementing an add-on to LinuxCNC called Gantrykins to approximate the slaving function in Mach3. It's not for the timid.
Re: Newbe question looking for a what controller to use.
This is not really true anymore, gantrykins is no longed needed with LinuxCNC master.The board I was referencing does work with Mach3 -- in fact, it has "Mach3" printed right on the circuit board
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0...?ie=UTF8&psc=1
That board is everywhere, under many different names, but all made in the same factory in China. It will work with Mach3, using a parallel port -- but ONLY on Windows 32-bit installations. There are no Mach3 drivers supported for 64-bit Windows -- I've already barked up that tree...
Mach3 will use the term "slave axis" or XYYZ config. LinuxCNC will only refer to XYYZ config, but does not really implement the "slave" concept. It can have either two independent motors receiving the same Y-axis step and direction signals (ugly, error-prone), or you can earn a degree in computer science by studying and implementing an add-on to LinuxCNC called Gantrykins to approximate the slaving function in Mach3. It's not for the timid.
LinuxCNC master has merged the joints-axis branch and supports gantry configurations
with slaved axis and gantry homing natively.
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