Sheetcam plasma --> use torch on for nail gun action?
Posted: Wed Feb 10, 2016 8:52 am
Hello!
We've got quite a nice order of wooden crates but we need to shoot 51.000 nails to assemble them.
That takes a lot of time of course so I was thinking: Lets mount a nailgun on the cnc router z axis, move to the right position, move down, and then give a signal to fire the gun.
Than, if I make 2 or 3 jigs and let the machine run all of them a operator could be loading 1 jig while the cnc is nailing the other and viceversa.
That would double the workspeed and with a nice safety switch it should work great.
I could just reroute the Flood wires that operate my dust collection to a solenoid that would fire the gun.
Than write some drilling operations with the right locations and manually add a m08 / m09 command to shoot and reset the gun.
That sounds quite simple to me but am I missing something or is there a postprocessor in sheetcam that does this automatically?
I'm using sheetcam for a lot of cnc routing and not for this new idea that popped in my head just now
We've got quite a nice order of wooden crates but we need to shoot 51.000 nails to assemble them.
That takes a lot of time of course so I was thinking: Lets mount a nailgun on the cnc router z axis, move to the right position, move down, and then give a signal to fire the gun.
Than, if I make 2 or 3 jigs and let the machine run all of them a operator could be loading 1 jig while the cnc is nailing the other and viceversa.
That would double the workspeed and with a nice safety switch it should work great.
I could just reroute the Flood wires that operate my dust collection to a solenoid that would fire the gun.
Than write some drilling operations with the right locations and manually add a m08 / m09 command to shoot and reset the gun.
That sounds quite simple to me but am I missing something or is there a postprocessor in sheetcam that does this automatically?
I'm using sheetcam for a lot of cnc routing and not for this new idea that popped in my head just now