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Working envelope is the same on each.

The SuperX3 is by far a better machine with the addition of a brushless DC spindle motor, belt drive (as opposed to gear) digital touchpad with manual tapping...

Wrote my own post for SprutCAM. You can download it here:

SprutCAM

I'm using the old version. Sure would like to upgrade though to get that lathe function.

Zero of a A is usually your Z axis 0 plane, or 0 degrees.

Their is no referance on the Z.

The A can go around any number of degrees you specify. 720, 1023, 20, etc. One full revolution is 360...

I've been doing some short videos. Here's one surfacing some aluminum.

Surfacing

You'll have to excuse the quality. I'm not much of a camera man, or producer of video.

6061 Aluminum
1"...

2005 was 4th indexed, but I think their new 2007 is live 4th.

Easiest way is to put an air spindle in your spindle now. Have it turned on and off with the G-Code controlled relays.

Air spindles come in a huge range of speeds. Up to 113k rpm. The one I...

I would contact Frans in Australia for the correct metric settings.

Spindle delay was implemented to overcome the limiting size of the capacitors on the spindle main board. The slow rampup keeps...

By FAR, the easiest CAM system I've used that produced:

1. the most beautiful code
2. with little effort
3. and worked directly with Solidworks

was SprutCAM. Russian based, but have a...

No conversion in the X4, X4 Plus, or X7. They are in production and won't be ready until first of the year.

Yes, you can upgrade the X3 and SX3 to new X4 or X4 plus. Details are still being put...

You do know that you need to "twist" the estop to turn it on? Once you do that power is provided to the main spindle board. Mach is registering a open ground for the estop and also the main board. ...

1.3 has been used since we became a dealer. We have never seen any other unit. Maybe some of the first couple of people over a year ago got a previous version. If you purchased it within the last...

ALL pc boards for ALL countries are made the same. This means the pinouts are the same for all machines. The only variable is the PC port.

Even the 3.3v units work, but sometimes not as reliable...

Sounds like an E-stop button is depressed or shorted.

That's the one. At about .01" the ballnuts would basically eat themselves up. A little locktite blue is a good thing on machines that are used in a production enviroment. NO RED. That will keep...

Wes did a good job answering, but here are a few additions / corrections.

2) You want the Y axis as far away from the column as possible.
4) Not nessasary to remove the grease from non moving...

Wooo. That's insane amounts of backlash. The ballnuts would explode with that much.

The ballnuts are pre-loaded so there is not adjustment. The only place to adjust backlash out is in the...

I've never used a blunt instrument on a SX3. They have a built-in colllet ejection system by screwing it out all the way to the top, then it simply pushes the holder out. At least that is the way...

One of the reasons the bearing blocks are hand drilled and marked is because Sieg hand drills and marks all of their holes as well. That's why it's impossible to have a bolt on kit for any of these...

I thought this was equally impressive. Done with the drill chuck in the Super X3.

http://www.syilamerica.com/docs/Customer%20Photos/jatu3ac.jpg

The later digital boards do not have the jumper. When using the high speed gears in the machine, everything at the spindle will be 2X what is on the head display, but your RPM on the controller will...

This is a photo sent to me yesterday from a customer. It was his first attempt at doing live 4th axis work. It was done in one pass. I thought it was pretty impressive for a persons first attempt,...

Thanks,

There is a tremendous number of things that a person can do with the controller and the machines.

Feel free to correct me on anything I've done.

Please do. Mondays and Fridays are crazy busy. Even though we are busy with new customers, we pride ourselves in keeping our past customers productive. So give us a call so we can get you up and...

In China, man power is the solution. So alot of the work you would typically find machine work in the U.S. is all done by hand in China. All the workers doing the machining are top notch and well...

You say some of your jobs are 10 hours long. Even though the spindle will heat up. They can handle quite alot of heat. Long periods like this will require you to re-pack your spindle bearing...

You should check out the homing post with the video. Hope it helps.

Anyone give it a try?

Well said Mike, that's exactly correct. If you are doing alot of plastics or similar materials, it would help in your overall speed. Other than that, it will not effect accuracy.

Sorry you're dissappointed. We don't monitor 3rd party forums just what customers email or call us.

We haven't had too many power supplies go bad. About 3%. They are extremely reliable. Sounds...

I'll do my best. I'm not a web guy. I'll ask around and see how I can do that.