Technician required

[joss01]

Ah, I think you posted before, I remember the machine and the vid. Are you looking for someone to fix the current control setup or potentially retrofit it / modernise it?

[joss01]

Hi yes that was the post.
The cnc 3 years old and very well made it has a 1 x 2 meter bed 200mm gantry height, it is 440volt, it will soon have pneumatic material clamps fitted and has a tool bit chiller fitted. It is primarily use to engrave memorials, relief work in stone and war memorial plaques. The machine is used frequently used and operates well. My issue starts here the cnc was built in Poland with PIKO operating software which there is no English software available so operating the cnc has been a learning curve. I want to upgrade the control unit to and software to Masso unit or something similar and I am looking for someone to carry out the upgrade.
Thanks for responding

[Chaz]

Hi yes that was the post.
The cnc 3 years old and very well made it has a 1 x 2 meter bed 200mm gantry height, it is 440volt, it will soon have pneumatic material clamps fitted and has a tool bit chiller fitted. It is primarily use to engrave memorials, relief work in stone and war memorial plaques. The machine is used frequently used and operates well. My issue starts here the cnc was built in Poland with PIKO operating software which there is no English software available so operating the cnc has been a learning curve. I want to upgrade the control unit to and software to Masso unit or something similar and I am looking for someone to carry out the upgrade.
Thanks for responding

If its running something proprietary, why not move to something like Acorn centroid or does the current control system do a lot of the CAD / CAM for you? How do you current generate G Code or is this done by this unit?

[joss01]

Yes and I am still looking for someone

[joss01]

Hello Boyan thank you for that piece of advice I had no intensions of installing Mach 3 as I have read some negative reviews. As far as staring up is concerned I control the XY axis to suit each piece of work via the controller.

[joss01]

I am looking for someone to modernise /upgrade the controller but I am not having much luck finding somebody who can come back with a straight answer

[magicniner]

When having my new 4-Axis VMC built I went for the Siemens 808D Advanced Controller, Servo and Drive system, it added £5k to the price of the machine over that with a Chinese manufacturer's system so I'm guessing it's £7k-10k of the price of the machine.

[joss01]

Thats great to here I have a polish built machine that cost me 20k not chinese do you know of anyone who can help me with my upgrade? As said its a proffesional machine and I am not a hobbyist