Ecabs and Gannomat CNC dowel inserter
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BenRatt
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Ecabs and Gannomat CNC dowel inserter
Believe it or not, thanks to Daniel at TWD, our ecabs now talks to our Gannomat CNC dowel inserter via barcode. In ecabs I label the parts that get dowels with a user part name cooresponding to the drilling pattern and it's converted into a barcode. Only the parts that get drilled/doweled get barcodes and they're scanned and we're drilling/inserting a few secs later. Awesome! Made a short video- http://youtu.be/AlSryXxxO18
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FredHirsch
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Re: Ecabs and Gannomat CNC dowel inserter
Ben,
Very cool. So how does the dowler know which part to pull? Is there a text file or something that ecabs splits out and you load on the dowler. Would like to hear more.
Fred
Very cool. So how does the dowler know which part to pull? Is there a text file or something that ecabs splits out and you load on the dowler. Would like to hear more.
Fred
Fred Hirsch
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BenRatt
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Re: Ecabs and Gannomat CNC dowel inserter
I figure out the spacing in line drawing editor and program the dowel inserter accordingly. I assign that program a name and label the parts with that name. The name is converted into a bar code by CN and then when it's scamnned it pulls that program up automatically. We use the same patterns alot. U program the dowel inserter once and its in there forever.