Russian machine tool company that uses LinuxCNC with Probe Basic

hairy wrote:

Tormach's PathPilot CNC controller software is built on top of LinuxCNC.

Tormach also used Mesa boards for everything, they still do but i think they started making copies of them in some china factory, has to be confirmed though.
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A big china company that manufactures automation stuff like robotic paletizers use modified LinuxCNC with a simple GUI for a small touchscreen. I dived into the inner workings and sure there where the hal and the ini and examples, all from probably 5-7 years ago. Had very limited time so could not get more info.

And there's this one:

www.apsx.com/apsx-nano-cnc-swiss-lathe

Nowhere do they explicitly mention LCNC.  It runs on "ASPX CNC software."

And yet...

All the g-codes, M-codes, etc. are identical.  Post processor is minor edit of the LCNC post.

Not sus at all.

From their PDF:
And lower on that document, at the "plot tab" is Gremlin (the LinuxCNC visualization screen, not the small monsters from the movie )
Last page, board with parallel port, oh yes!
Still the price is not astronomical.

Oh, and there's this...

 

tommylight wrote:

Code:

Still the price is not astronomical.

 

No, it's not.  I'm not bashing the machine, just the fact that they're obscuring the fact that the software is LCNC.

However, two things are crippling the lathe:

Clearpath servo for the spindle with no separate encoder - there's no index output signal.  Which means you have to 'home' the C-axis and do all milling/indexing operations in one go because you can't re-home to the same position after taking it out of C-axis mode.

And the 1/2" diameter limitation is a killer.

That lathe, with a spindle encoder (or servo with index output) and 1" spindle would be pretty sweet.

And if they could beg/borrow/steal the pneumatic collet closer from the Sherline, they could have a REAL swiss that takes stock longer than a foot.

One closer on the spindle, one on the guide bushing frame, and you could feed barstock of (mostly) unlimited length without an expensive bar-feeder.

spumco wrote:

I'm not bashing the machine, just the fact that they're obscuring the fact that the software is LCNC.

Yeah that is shameful, and pretty sure it is illegal. Did anyone check our license?
I respect Tormach for mentioning LinuxCNC, and their software was 35$ including the USB.