Hydraulic press brake control

Did you see this?

forum.linuxcnc.org/41-guis/34058-vismach-wire-bending#106732

Hi Andy,

I have tried and read the doc's of Vismach about 6 month's ago. It is very nice to see the actual press brake tooling and the product getting shaped.
Do you know if Vismach is updated in past time, as your link describes?
My knowlegde of linuxcnc is better as 6 month's ago, so i can look to adapt the Vismach screen to the press brake gui.

I was also thinking about adding features to the gremlin source code.
When you look at the displaying of the tiny red machine extend's line's, or tool Cone, i thought to investegate this source code to add some related lines or shapes for example to the Gremlin screen. To see what is possible. At the moment the Gremlin is very limited.

Grotius wrote: Do you know if Vismach is updated in past time, as your link describes?

I am pretty sure that it hasn't been done.

I received my boards and I'm working on installing them. I'm thinking that doing the closed loop outside the comp would be less code and trouble. Yes? And yes, my home sensors on the cylinders are at the top. My reasoning was that at the bottom is dependent on what punch and die are in the machine. I guess I could have put them somewhere in the middle.

Hi Steve,

The stepper motor closed loop outside the comp would be perfect!
End switches on top is good. I asked myself how your glass encoders are working.
If you have the glass encoders online, please provide the data from halmeter.
If the data on the glas scale is alway's the same at startup, or the data is alway's responding to position with the same value,
you can use this glass scale for home reference you and don't need to configure or add home sensor's.
This would be my first attempt to get the KIS. (keep it simple)
In fact with home sensor's you have to reset your glass scale data. So i am curious how this will respond in your system.
Good luck !! Take your time.

i'm using 300mm long from fast 2 buy on ebay. Attached is a link to them

Glass scales