Better -- yes.
Mostly.
But almost certainly You will not choose to afford one .. the prices are well above the 100.000€ and up range.
Making a large servo motor with lathe-quality bearings is...
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Better -- yes.
Mostly.
But almost certainly You will not choose to afford one .. the prices are well above the 100.000€ and up range.
Making a large servo motor with lathe-quality bearings is...
Very ambitious.
Good luck.
My scratch built VMC has less than 100 N/um,
and it´s a portal, and uses 35 mm rails, and is version 5 over 10 years.
Measured deflection by standing on the spindle.
...
I suspect that the low-power slitting saw will be a non-issue re:spindle lifetime.
Commercial VMCs, large, typically only use about 2-3-4 amps at 3-phase 440, except in getting up to spindle...
Yeah right.
About 4 trillion dollars per years is spent on concrete and buildings by builders, globally.
There is probably exactly nothing that high-end builders don´t know about concrete ..
In...
One of the most successful, rich, engineering company founders made videos on youtube, showing how strong or rigid parts are.
2 steel parts bonded by rubber bands are as strong as if they were...
If You bought a big new laser, it´s assumed for a business.
Get someone experienced to come and take a look.
For 500$ you can get excellent advice, and the problem may or may not be solved.
No...
1. No.
2. Yes.
Concrete, and derivations, are pretty weak in terms of strength, bending, and rigidity.
They are strong in compression, and good in vibration resistance.
A mill C frame, like a...
I dunno .. but ..
you have the estop going to the spindle only.
I suggest adding estop to either hold / disable the servo drives,
or optionally depower the servo drives, depending.
Guys .. the nr 1 issue is column size, not thickness.
A 30 x 30 cm column is VASTLY more rigid than a 15 x 15 cm column.
Likewise, a 200 mm free length at end of column vs 400 mm is 8 x less...
OP LaBelle.
It´s a rabbit hole, and far deeper than You probably think.
One of the best controllers is the cslabs csmio-ips, that I use.
For about 6 years.
After trying 5 different ones.
Lathe...
A 4 foot gantry driven centrally is fine.
Endless VMC do this with much larger pieces cutting steel.
You should upsize your frame and gantry rigidity about 10x.
Easiest way imo, ime, is to...
Fwiw..
mach3 has been a realtime controller with closed loop IF and ONLY IF you have the right hw that closes the feedback loop at the ac servo level and or controller level.
So it can fault...
The A: is that gcode is endlessly complex with endless variations, implemented in endless ways by various companies.
Legal gcode can be interpreted quite differently by 2 different controllers, or...
There are good horizontal 90-degree angle tools from industrial suppliers.
For plastic enclosures they are what You probably want.
Probably about 3000$ for 1-2 tools.
Adding AI to CAM is a fool´s dream or --
someone like Elon Musk who can succeed in getting 20B$ in funding and 10 years of support for it to start working.
It´s unbeliavably difficult to do good...
The answer is actually very complex for endless reasons.
There are 16 million different combinations of offsets for std gcodes, if they are all implemented and work correctly, which they won´t-...
Anything and everything will be better over time ..
todays vmcs are essentially stressed thin-skin structures of cast iron.
I know of nothing regarding advanced materials in the near future.
In...
Yes. No.
Typically the error is not repeatable.
You screws typically have bearings that are not ac, and are poor in other ways, and are not properly anchored.
Aka the screws are not firmly fixed...
Guys ...
good wood structures, solid, laminated beams, are about 1.5-2x as strong as steel in both stiffness and strength.
By mass.
Sitka spruce is one option.
They need the high H measure for...
Just do it right the first time.
Forget anything old in servos and electronics .. really .. really .. really ..
New servo motors and amps and controllers will be dead simple to install for less...
? Really ?
The SS I had long ago was not good, had electrical issues, the support was never there, the setup screen was not correct, endless stuff.
The Cslabs stuff is very expensive -- but it´s...
Generally, these were ok for old stuff.
Today, spindles can do hard tapping via encoder input.
CSLabs csmio-ips supports this.
For the OP yellowhair -- it´s harder than You think.
Most stuff 20x40 is not readily upgradeable - the linears.
Better, even vastly better, ac servo drivers will produce much better results, but...
There is nothing wrong with using switch mode power supplies.
Just like using gensets for welding.
One needs about 40% extra nominal capacity, and then there are zero issues.
So a 3 kW welder...
You probably have poor kit - aka a poor board.
(and drivers, support, realtime stuff in probing, homing, everything).
It´s more complicated than one would think, and usb stuff is usually a bad...
You cannot really practically buy a HAAS from another HFO.
Yes, You can do it, out of area sales, but most don´t want to do it.
BUT ..
Call the manager of the HFO where you had the bad...
Nothing wrong with uccnc.
Nothing wrong with mach3.
Nothing wrong with cslabs csmio-ips for machx, mach3 or mach4, or their own sw.
"much cheaper" is a bad idea.
All the controllers, including...
Endless issues ..
all the good big stuff like siemens nx, or dassault catia, or sw, is in the 30k+ range.
You can get good functional stuff like ad inventor cad for about 600 € if you lie or get...
This is the common and correct practice.
Ground everything to one point.
As You said.
In many instances, but only perhaps 2-3%, this does not work for mysterious reasons.
Sinking an extra...
A:
No.
Proper grounding (you should do) may or may not solve the apparent issue.
The correct solution is to separate webcams etc and all externals from the machine tool controller.
Easy cheap...