Centroid Community CNC Support Forum

Thanks Uwe. I have Pro, so I will upgrade to ultimate. I have a spare Acorn, so I was thinking that if I added a small Z axis slide and a vertical slide, I could machine the features I want with a completely independent system of control running mill software. I think I could program an output from ...

I have collected all the parts for the Y axis. I can install it in a couple of days. It will only have an inch of travel, but that’s all I need. I need to be able to make a seat for the valves of the instrument to seat against. That seat needs a planar surface. Not sure I can get that using C axis. ...

My acorn lathe is working well now so I want to start planning the next layer of features I need for my woodwind instrument manufacturing. My turret is on the front of my X axis and I want to mount a high speed spindle on the back of the X axis to make the finger holes in the barrel of the instrumen...

I would like to print out my Intercon programs so I can annotate them to help in the trouble shooting process.
I don't see a print utility in CNC12. Am I missing something. Is there a work-around other than "print screen"?

Thanks,
Ken Wallace, San Diego

<t>My 18" Chevallier is making parts under Acorn control now.<br/> However, I am changing the turret position manually.<br/> The Turret software that is built into the CNC12 appears to lack two control features I need.<br/> My turret has a solenoid that drives a locking pin into the rotating part to...

THANKS! The forced outputs were the problem. Things are working now.

Re: The addition of the SureServo2 drives to the Wizard. It dawned on me that those definitions live in CNC12 not on the Acorn.... Sorry.

I am having a spot of trouble getting my Nofaultout output to turn on. The Drive 1&2 OK inputs are green as is the VFD "ready" input. Input 8 is monitoring the EStop switch and that is green as well. There is no fault displayed on the Centroid control panel and it resets successfully. ...

The reason is that I was just trying to avoid having to add the expansion hardware. It tempts me to migrate to the Acorn Six.

I am thinking to forgo using the Acorn to drive the resets on the VFD and Servos and just use pushbuttons. Is there a reason that this is a bad idea? I have only the 8 channels of output from relay board with the Acorn. I want to control the Sauter turret on my lathe and I believe I will need 6 outp...