Re: Yet Another New Machine

"Bob La Londe"  wrote in message news:vfuc8v$2ap2c$1@dont-email.me...
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The thing that excites me most about it (Onefinity Elite Foreman) is the
Masso G3 Touch controller it comes with. ...
Bob La Londe
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I began designing machine control panels with paper drawings to be made on a shear, brake and Strippit punch. CAD/CAM and plasma cutting is quite an advance but I must say the old way was easy to learn and worked pretty well. I was earning a living with just a pencil.
Learning the old manual methods has been useful when I needed to modify existing equipment that was too awkward or flexible to do on a machine.
I also designed relay ladder logic for actual relays, before PLCs arrived. I began circuit board design with black tape or a laundry marker and advanced through computerized design and simulation as they developed. The electronics I learned in the Army used individual transistors, then I closely followed the growth progress of ICs through FPGAs that could self-configure to match a CAD schematic. The computer revolution has been interesting to observe and participate in.