New shopsabre

[BensMillwork]

I Just received my new shopsabre 4896 with tool changer ,4th axis and digitizer.Very good quality ! Same components as machines costing much more.Come with columbo spindle Mitsubishi 7.5 hp motor and ac digital servos THK rails Ball screws. I'm very pleased with the service and the product !
Ben

[JAIME ZAZUETA]

Could You Please Help Me With Your Opinion On Your Shop Sabre Up To Now

[BensMillwork]

Originally Posted by JAIME ZAZUETA Could You Please Help Me With Your Opinion On Your Shop Sabre Up To Now

Hello , Sure what would you like to know.Mike Seegar was my salesperson.He's great to work with,A no pressure kind of guy thaqt tells you about the machine ,but takes the high road when it come to talking about the competition.I can't stand a salesmen who automatically starts trashing his competition.T
There are alot of good router manufacturers out there.It just a matter of who is going to give the top of the line components at the best price.In my case I did not really look at rack and pinion machines because I knew I wanted ballscrews.If you have any specific questions I'll be glad to answer.
Thanks,
Ben

[todd71]

Have you digitized anything yet? If so, how'd it go. Seems like it would take forever. Considering how many points you'd need to map out an object.

Just curious,
Todd
http://www.innovative-accents.com

[BensMillwork]

Yes,I did digitize some pistol grips,Yes,they have the probe set for a very slow rate.I use the basically the same probe on a little carvewright machine they run it at about 600 ipm,The shopsabre will cut at those speeds easy, I'm not sure why win cnc wants to run the digitizer so slow.But the either way it still slow... you just set it up when nothing else is going on and leave it.
Ben

[todd71]

Was the pistol grip "checkered". If so, how'd those little squares come out. Or is that to small for the probe to read? I don't know that I'd ever need one. But the concept is intriguing. Besides if it's slow I'd go crazy watching that. Not that I'm a "hack" I'm just impatient. Nothing worse than watching your machine cut air.

Thanks for the info,
Todd

[cut more]

Hello,
I just noticed you are running wincnc with the probe option, I was reading the manual the other day about the probe set up. I noticed it looks like you can set the feed rate for that in the wincnc.ini file. Look in the manual under the section that shows all the ini set-up.
Was the probe option part of the shopsabre package? I just called winnc and they wanted $300 to turn that on, on my practical cnc. I will convert over to Mach3 before I spend $300 just to be able to digitize!
Hope that helps,
Cutmore

[BensMillwork]

Yes, The probe is a 300.00 option that came with a digitizing probe.When you talked to win cnc and they wanted 300.00 to turn it on . Did that include the digitizer probe?I bought mine at the time I purchased the machine,So I'm not sure how it works when you add it later.
Ben

[cut more]

Ben,
The $300 was with no probe. I am almost finished building my probe. How well does the probe function work? I have a customer who needs a carved fish scanned, would the probe that came from wincnc work for that?
Thanks,
Cutmore

[BensMillwork]

The probe works well and will capture fine detail . They have a new mode ,called frame where it just captures the outline of an object.I was surprisred the softwarw did not have a depth of scan option, to enable you to create a imaginary z bottom.The way it is now the probe goes down until it feels a bottom, which makes the need to block up around a deeper items.so th probe will have something to touch and also so you don't break it by scanning something to deep.
Ben

[BensMillwork]

Hello, anyone wish who uses wincnc can get the new update ,that now has the false Z-bottom ,this is good when you are scanning sonething deep and just want to capture the top portion,with out the false z-you would have to block up around the part so the probe would have something the touch.
Ben

[BensMillwork]

Originally Posted by todd71 Have you digitized anything yet? If so, how'd it go. Seems like it would take forever. Considering how many points you'd need to map out an object. Just curious, Todd http://www.innovative-accents.com

Todd,Looked at your website,you have some very nice patterns on there,I may ask you for some pointers,what software do you design with?
Thanks,
Ben