Originally Posted by
ripperj
This is going sound rude no matter how I write it, but it certainly is not intended too.
I would think if you had the skills to design and construct a 6 axis arm that could correctly grab a piece of raw stock from a stock pile, detect its orientation, transfer and correctly place it in a some sort of auto vice or pallet loader in the correct orientation and location,and then remove it and place it in another bin.... the communication between the arm and the mill would be child’s play.
I would think you would want the arm controls completely separate from the mill. If there is no spare I/O accessible on the mill, you could probably cheat and repurpose a 4th axis, flood coolant or ATC (no idea what you have) to trigger the arm to do its thing
Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Pro