Centroid Community CNC Support Forum

All, I'm interested in exploring AC servos for use with the Acorn. I have considered clearpath as well, and may go with them, but It seems like the cost quickly approaches AC servos when looking at the higher power NEMA 34 clearpath motors. Looking for any suggestions that work with the step/dir inp...

Hi! thanks we always welcome feature requests. 1.) i'll add it to the list, but there is an easy way to figure out the xy position of a BHC and once you have the first one programmed you just type in the xy coordinates of the second one and press f10 2.) for this one , we are in the process of 'bre...

For anyone else interested, I have a new updated plan. Based upon some more research into the Fusion 360 Post Processor, it appears a complete solution is much simpler than I originally thought. 1. Configure the machine with 4 linear axis, X, Y, Z, W 2. Set custom machine parameters that provide an ...

For anyone following along, I thought I'd provide a possible course of action I may take. Ideally this would superseded by future features of the centroid software. I have broken the approach up into 2 phases, with phase 1 being simpler to implement, but a bit more labor intensive for each cut file,...

its best to have the cad/cam system use short vectors and stick to g1's and g0's which is common these days. then you can get any type of "move" to work in any plane with any other axis. Ah, thank you. I wasn’t sure what is considered best practice. Does the standard centroid fusion 360 p...

Helical arcs in G17, using W instead of Z, should work just fine. Arcs in G18 or G19 will not work with the W axis. You would have to get your CAM software to post them as a series of short G1 moves instead. Hmm… thank you for the info, that is unfortunate. This takes me back to square one for a bi...

if you are not going to rigid tap on the W axis, independent Z axes can be controlled with G code, you could simply have your post processor put W in the G code for the 2nd Z axis when you want that 2nd Z to move and then the W axis would move not Z M333 is not sorted and is experimental, not sure ...

if you are not going to rigid tap on the W axis, independent Z axes can be controlled with G code, you could simply have your post processor put W in the G code for the 2nd Z axis when you want that 2nd Z to move and then the W axis would move not Z M333 is not sorted and is experimental, not sure ...

yes there are several approaches to this. what exactly are you after? not all dual Z machines act the same. some are Z1 Z2 are slaved and work in unison, others are two separate axes Z and W do you need rigid tapping on the 2nd Z axis? etc..etc.. Any thoughts on this CNCKeith? I answered your quest...

Keith, What can you tell us about M333, and whether it could be applied to this type of machine? Thanks for mentioning that, that appears to function similarly to the "swap axis" concept in other controllers. I think this would do what I need provided it is fully functional. In a manual I...