Biesse Rover 346 Retrofit

Probably should start a new thread for your question(s).

But the first step is to figure out how the axis motors on your router are controlled (what kind of command signal). Are they step-motors or servos that accept step/dir commands, or is the servo loop closed in the control using analog commands, or something different? Also your spindle VFD(s) and how they can be controlled.

The next step is to determine how many digital IO points you will need and what electrical properties they have (limit switches, pressure switches, relays...)

Once you've gathered all of that information, you are ready to decide what interface hardware you will need/want to buy.

Gday Bevins, do you have the parameter settings somewhere for the Chinese servos you used on that roller rack machine you setup? You mentioned the need to adjust quite a few settings in my rover 23 retrofit thread.
Sorry to drop this here, wasn't sure how else to contact you.

Cheers

Sam

SPH wrote: Gday Bevins, do you have the parameter settings somewhere for the Chinese servos you used on that roller rack machine you setup? You mentioned the need to adjust quite a few settings in my rover 23 retrofit thread.
Sorry to drop this here, wasn't sure how else to contact you.

Cheers

Sam

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I tried searching for it and cannot find the spreadsheet of the commands and what was changed.

Do you have the manual with all the parameters? Need to open the loop so it is not closed in the drive and close it in linuixcnc from what I remember.

Ah, bummer.
Yes, I've got the manual but while quite readable it doesn't use terminology that's easily translated to terms I recognise. PID isn't mentioned.
I'll see if I can find one that relates to the the encoder loop.

Hello, mr. Bevins!

I have retrofitted yet another Biesse to LinuxCNC and this time I have to do automagic toolchange as well. I have to admit that I got inspired by your remap success (meaning that I have already copied all the files from your github repository).
My main question is about your hal files. For example, BS-346_TC hal file in the comment at the beginning of the file mentions this:
"Created by XML to HAL converter in python: CreateHALfromXML.py"

Google has no idea, what is that. Can you, please, explain, what is that converter script? I was hoping to adjust your py and xml files for my machine - basically the same, except that there are 5 tool pockets. I was hoping that I could do with basically ctrl+c and ctrl+v of those "drop_tool" and "pickup_tool" sections and some other minor tweaks (like number of drill spindles etc). So then I would be glad to save some time by automagically creating hal files...

Viesturs