This video is old enough to be in elementary school but I still wanted to say thanks for posting it. I have CNC/G-code experience but never ran a conversational control, before picking up a similar MX2 machine. You saved me a lot of time and button pushing. Thanks!
Very informative and easy to understand... for those with no knowledge, of using any such machines and systems, would like to see more if you could find the time. As previously commented... there is not enough on these older systems.... Thank you
interesting. Now I see why they want us to know about absolute paths. That must get very complicated facing a thick block and then cutting it like a cube or whatever. We have one of these in our maker space, so I wanted to see what it was about.
The biggest thing to know with arc is knowing where the center is and the end point which is really easy to figure out if you know the radius. Instead of a line you just insert an arc and witch direction you want it to go. Its kinda self explainitory if you know the center and end point.
Very helpful! I know this is an old video but are you still going to upload more of these on the Prototrak? There really isn't much out there. Thanks, Jason
How do you mill arcs and curves, when you have unknown tangent points??....that's why I like accurites, milpower......it has a calculator, to find all your unknown points
I know this is an old video, and an old comment. This ProtoTRAK control is from the late 90's, it is the A.G.E. 2 axis control. A.G.E stands for Auto Geometry Engine and will automatically calculate unknown tangency points as you program if the control is given enough information. There is also a full geometry calculator on board if you just want to find the numbers. Newer ProtoTRAK controls still utilize this Auto Geometry Engine as well as include the ability to import geometry directly from a CAD drawing or Parasolid model. Look up TRAK Machine Tools on RU-vid(ru-vid.com), tons of videos on there.
Around 11:10 and on the repeats are active. It isn’t setup for a continuous repeat, because it’s only taking the two passes. When I added the repeat, it is so I only need to push GO two times to start once I load the next part. If you want it to repeat the same lines over and over, you would need to make your last line of the program (before your SUB line) say YES to continue instead of NO.
