Hi guys
I already have 350i, and now I want buy roland
But reseller told me I need buy a new sum3d milling box
And that cost 6k usd in my country ...
Hi PinAn, you can upgrade from the IMES version to run both machines - you just need to pay the difference between your POST-restricted version and the full version that allows posting to all machines. I'd need your dongle number so I can look up your current license to let you know roughly how much that would cost.
Also, I would advise looking into getting MillBox as part of your upgrade, it's the new interface for the CAM and has been launched for nearly 1-2 years now.
Did this back in 2012 imes 340i and Roland dwx 50. you just need the right post proseser for the mill. Same blanks can be used in both mills as well. But you will most likely need to change the offset or simply set a standard offset like 2.8 or 3.0 cause the imes uses a 2.5mm to trough and the Roland uses a 2mm, so a offset of 2.8 is minimal for a 2.5mm tool so 3mm might be ideal but still big for the Roland. It manageable.
Also you will have to figure out if the disk is rotated in the ones from the Roland. If I recall right the disk was flipped or rotated 180° in the holder. Has to do with the position of one of the axis.
Best way create a new blank place it in the ones and run a simulation cut with no disk in the mill for a single unit, then run another simulation with another single unit in the Roland and see where the disk needs to be changed and remember and make changes as needed.
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Each machine has it's own offset values in the case of the IMES mills. For the Roland mills, these are all the same so there's no need to manually set any offsets.
also sum3d as far as i know doesnt allow you to have multiple simultaneous cam from one installation at a time. you literally need a second computer to even do 2 calculaions at the same time.
Hi Luke, this is actually not the case. You can perform multiple calculations simultaneously in the standard single core calculations. For the multi-core calculations, it's not recommended because the CAM will utilize up to 100% of the CPU for the single calculation (if needed).
Last I remember in sum 3d there was no machine profile to create different offsets for each material. Don't know on newest version. But acts as a global for all materials. Only one setting.
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This was the case in SUM3D, but can be augmented in MillBox to be transparent to the user. You can essentially create different "machines" in the existing archive with different offsets (if needed) and reference that machine through MillBox's backend configuration.