I have a chance to get a 4HP ATC spindle for a great price. Has anyone added one to an Avid? How difficult was it, or would it be. I about the CNC Depot one, but I can get a great deal on one from a friend. Thanks

I would put the difficulty of adding an ATC at intermediate to advanced. You should be or will need to become very comfortable writing your own LUA scripts. The difficulty comes from doing this safely. You need to add the sensors and logic to make sure the tool change occurs as it should when it sho…

I agree with ThinkBox. There’s no reason you can’t do it technically but it is a lot of work. I’ve done a few adaptations like that in my past on other machines. Off the top of my head you’ll need to fabricate a mount to put the spindle on our Z axis. That’s probably the easiest part. Mach 4 can ha…

Although, depending on how good the deal is, it would be much easier to grab it now, install it on your machine and just treat it as a standard spindle with manual tool change. I can see a lot of advantages to having that spindle and manually tool changing. For one, having actual tool holders load…

Adding I tool changer is fairly easy with Acorn control The ATC macro is included and Here is an example of it on AVID type machine [Acorn Centroid CNC tool Changer test, CNC4PB Boards Yakotec servos and drives] ATC Set up and test

Add (NON CNC DEPOT) ATC Spindle to Avid - How difficult?

Fcfnc October 28, 2022, 10:25pm 5

Yes, this is exactly what I was thinking I can do for now and build up as I have the time. Thanks!

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