06-25-2013, 06:31 PM
I went over to the shop for a short while this evening and played with the control. I followed the book and entered in a string of commands to get it to run a 2" x 4" rectangular path. It wouldn't move.
Not one to give up easily, I read more in the book and pushed some buttons. The machine took off and made some crazy tool path that I didn't recognize, so it must be a stored program that somehow got called up and executed.
Well at least the spindle was empty and off, and with no tool in the spindle, no workpiece in the vise and no Z axis movement possible via program, nothing crashed. It was nice to see it run though.
A little more time playing with it and I should be able to make....something. ;)
Not one to give up easily, I read more in the book and pushed some buttons. The machine took off and made some crazy tool path that I didn't recognize, so it must be a stored program that somehow got called up and executed.
Well at least the spindle was empty and off, and with no tool in the spindle, no workpiece in the vise and no Z axis movement possible via program, nothing crashed. It was nice to see it run though.
A little more time playing with it and I should be able to make....something. ;)