Hi
I'm thinking about buying a Emco turn 240 lathe (Emcotronic T1 control) for Aluminium work.
I don't want to retrofit the machine. I just want to start working.
But I have no experience with the controls and I don't want to manually program gcode.
For the CAM/CAD software I use Fusion360, works great so far.
I also found something about editing a post processor to make it work with the emco controls.
So that seems to be no deal breaker?
But how do I transfer the files to the 240, and how fast does it go? I don't want to wait 30min before a program is loaded.
Any limitations?
I came across a video of someone transferring the files over a serial connection.
But it seems very slow. Also does the amount of internal memory cause a problem for bigger files?
Any advice is appreciated