Promecor Lathe retrofit with TKXHMI

Yea, this.  Do want, can't justify.

@fsabbatini


There are clearly a bunch of folks here slobbering over your screenset and back-stage improvements.

I've got an older Emco 325-II live-tool C-axis lathe running the PC-based fake "Fanuc" control.  It mostly works, but I expect some proprietary component to die if I blink and Emco is useless with older control support.

The single-block improvement you've demonstrated alone is worth me buying components to set up a bench-testing rig just to have something ready when the Emco dies.

What do you need from this community to publish this masterpiece and give a little aid the slower-witted of us in setting something up like this?

Money? Booze? Applause?

Hey cakeslob, you are right, they are expensive, it cost around 180usd but it is made from stainless stell with high IP, usable in the dirtiest environment. I have been using logitech keyboards and they last as long as a fart in a cage in heavy dirty environment..
when i say HMI is the part of software you interact with. Eveything is running on an industrial panel pc (the motherboards connects to the screen through LVDS signals internally), nice and neat.

Hi Spumco, thats the reason i started the development of this lcnc enhancements, there are tons of machines with cnc/electronic problems and i wanted to get a good replacements of it without loosing features.
I need more time to finish 3d plotting and 3d simulation and then i will publish it with some scheme of donations so we (my team and I) can keep up the development.

The new futures we are working on:
- Multi channel (siemens name) / Multi path (fanuc name) with all that implies (synch singals across channels, assigning spindle to channel, etc.)
- 3d simulation (backplot is a different thing, remember backplot have issues with infinite looping or loops with high number increments)
- 3d quick preview (with the issues mentioned before)
- S-Curve path interpolator
- Ability to change between S-Curve and constant accel on the fly (there are some process that constant accel is better, for example threading, as you need to copy-as-close-as-you-can the spindle variations)

Best regards and patience please
Franco

Thanks for the response - much as I expected.

You publish and let us know where to donate, and I'll chip in.