countryguy
Hot Rolled
- Joined
- Jul 29, 2014
- Location
- Mich, USA
Hi there Okuma'nites,
Son and I are really trying to put an Okuma CNC lathe into the home shop. Req's: turret. 2 axis, 8" chuck min. simple/bare bones. would like IGF... but hard to find w/ that on as well we're finding.
I was really looking into a LNC-8 and basically sold on this unit...But yesterday, I hit some reading and posts about struggles connecting up from modern CAM packages to these old units. Figured this is the place to ask. Wondering how difficult it is to load up these old 80's early 90's lathes from newer CAM systems? Or how you DNC code to the LNC8 or CADET lines specifically. Hearing that many okuma's did not come w/ this DNC-B feature to allow drop-feed. Do they still even sell it? Are there any other ways? 3rd party or add on's? btw/ We use F360 and Solidwords HSMWorlk for now.
We're open to other models that may have something which solved this.
TIA,
Son and I are really trying to put an Okuma CNC lathe into the home shop. Req's: turret. 2 axis, 8" chuck min. simple/bare bones. would like IGF... but hard to find w/ that on as well we're finding.
I was really looking into a LNC-8 and basically sold on this unit...But yesterday, I hit some reading and posts about struggles connecting up from modern CAM packages to these old units. Figured this is the place to ask. Wondering how difficult it is to load up these old 80's early 90's lathes from newer CAM systems? Or how you DNC code to the LNC8 or CADET lines specifically. Hearing that many okuma's did not come w/ this DNC-B feature to allow drop-feed. Do they still even sell it? Are there any other ways? 3rd party or add on's? btw/ We use F360 and Solidwords HSMWorlk for now.
We're open to other models that may have something which solved this.
TIA,