Re: Honest Appraisal of UCCNC
honest appraisal
i own 7 routers.- all work horses- from small to huge ex industrial machines. all capable of very high speed machining
most have been retrofitted with mach3 and galil motion controller. and have worked ok
ive only been using uccnc since october- but using it every day cutting parts for my business.
im using uc300 with mistubishi servos.
all i can say is wow! they have done an amazing job on the trajectory planner! (read as accel/deceleration planner if you wish)
not once have i had to switch to g61 exact stop mode. which for cabinet work with mach3 is a must if you want perfect results of parts that fit (machining at high speed)
yes there are old code things it cant do- which is a bit of a bind- as i like to program some parts parametrically - g41 42 are not available
hardly a big thing these days as most of my drawings are done in vcarve pro etc.
i actually cut at up to 20 metres/minute when doing cabinet work which uccnc handles superbly using the stock cv settings - slowing down for corners etc really nicely and accelerating away as id like it to.
for carving work (vcarving) i only cut at max 2m/minute to get desired work finish . 3d carving 6metres/minute.
im amazed how much more detail is in all my work. (and for cabinet work- everything fits together perfectly first time)
only a couple of issues ive had- probably caused by me, but machine was put straight to work as soon as it was running
1 a few usb dropouts
2 cant for the life of me get soft limits to work running a program- but work perfectly jogging to maximum extents on my machine
i have noted this to balaz
not really worried about soft limits as i have bomb proof hard limits set up (double stage via servos and if all else fails servo estop)
waiting for them to release the 5 port version of ethernet controller and il refit another 3 of my machines. (shame they wont run old analogue servos as buying new derives/motors for the others is way out of my budget!)
i have scripted a really nice tool height probe and just ready to add my 9hp hsd atc spindle and rotary carousel stolen off a biesse. hopefully get time to do this over next couple of weeks
happy cutting to everyone in 2016 . benny
so much to learn, so much to pass on.