New PM30 for CNC, or what have I done!

[ptrotter]

I'm working on a CNC conversion for a PM-940V mill using an Acorn board and Clearpath servos. Here is a picture of my system that is almost complete.



The switches are just there for testing. There will be 2 connector panels installed on the right side of the enclosure for all the connections. I have full control of the spindle thru the Acorn board.

 

[Rogbo]

What have I done continues on!

My steppers kits and power supplies came in yesterday.


I've set up my black Friday Lenovo laptop. What a beautiful beast - 16 gb ram, ssd hard drive, i5. I think it's going to cad/cam just fine. Working my way through the first part of a Fusion 360 book. Might play with freecad some, but I. I'm kind of past FOSS stacks.

 

[Rogbo]

PS, My Arizona Video CNC kit gets delivered tomorrow!

I'm in California for medical treatment that's going long. It ain't cancer, but it ain't no fun. Icing on the cake is I'm staying with my ex. So I bought a little CNC Router to ease both pains...

I said in the first post of this thread, I know nothing about CNC. Or CAD. As a retired IT guy, after 10 or 12 hours in the trenches, after hours it was as old skewl as I could get, kickstart Harleys, manual machining, Paper Aided Design. Now I caught the CNC bug.

Coming in late this week is my ebay special 6040 4 axis CNC Router! Going to try my hand with LinuxCNC. I hope to run the simple CAD programs in the Fusion 360 book I'm studying. I hope to get crashing out of my system before my PM30-MV is finished up early next year.

6040 4 axis CNC Router. USB interface,1500 watt water cooled spindle, VFD 0 - 24000 rpm, E11 Collet, ball screws, 23.6*15.7*4.7 inches work area. Mixed reviews.




Wish me luck!

 

[Boswell]

that looks like it will be great to learn about CNC. Looking forward to seeing some output.