Handling the e.stop and door is taken care of in the Mint program which is pre-compiled (Compact1000.mex) and sent down when the PC host connects to it. You can just keep that file as it is and only worry about connecting, downloading the .mex file, running the mint and then sending MA or VA comman...

Handling the e.stop and door is taken care of in the Mint program which is pre-compiled (Compact1000.mex) and sent down when the PC host connects to it. You can just keep that file as it is and only worry about connecting, downloading the .mex file, running the mint and then sending MA or VA comman...

As it sounds like you've done quite a lot of R&D I would suggest looking at using the Baldor ActiveX (MintControls.ocx) and writing something fairly simple to control the machine from your own app in C, visual basic or Delphi. This would be a good place to start: https://www.baldor.com/products/mot...

Thanks for the comments, it'd be interesting to see what you're trying to do with the machine so we can help... Can you give some detail as to how you'd like it to work ? How would you ask it to rotate endlessly ? How would you specify the feedrate/surface speed or would it wan't to be specified as...

There are three issues that I would like to bring up as they pertain to using VR milling with my compact 1000 machine. 1. The operation of the 4th axis-- As it has been established, the VR Milling software assumes that the 4th axis is an angular axis and therefore makes some calculations about the a...