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Summary of Contents for NVCM Series

Page 1: ...百年品质 值得信赖 您的产品名称 Manual MACH3 USB port 6 axis Controller Card NVCM ...

Page 2: ...Power supply Solution 5 2 2 Product connection define and method 6 Chapter 3 Software Installation 13 3 1 MACH3 Install 13 3 2 Plugin Install 16 Chapter 4 Setting of software 17 4 1 Open software 17 4 2 Software Common settings 18 Chapter 5 Using of software 24 5 1 Set Machine Coordinate system 24 5 2 Set workpiece coordinate system 26 5 3 Open G code file and run 28 Chapter 6 Question Answer 30 6...

Page 3: ...Mach3 software through USB port to communicate with computer This manual introduces operation connection and usage schedule of our professional motion controller for engraving machine Through a lot of the drawing the users can learn quickly how to use this motion controller 1 2 Products specification Support USB 16 ports photoelectric isolated input interface 16 ports photoelectric isolated output...

Page 4: ... there are 4pcs setting holes at the bottom We can fix 2pcs 3mm diameter holes at the cabinet and install the controller into the cabinet The controller appearance as the Figure 1 1 and Figure 1 2 show The products overall size is 150mm 84mm 20mm The bottom install size is 125 5mm 71 5mm Figure1 1 NVCM front appearance and size ...

Page 5: ...ady set and need to adjust the current spindle speed then we can adjust SRO value to realize it Current Speed S setting S SRO SRJ speed adjust manually During the operating process as the manual speed already set and we need to adjust the current speed and impossible to fix the value during it is working then we can revise the SRJ value to realize it Current manual speed FS Setting manual speed SR...

Page 6: ... with source switch such as Inductive proximity switch When using such kind of switch attention please avoid the terminal and terminal of power supply to connect with GND This equipment s analogy quantity output terminal of spindlecontrolalos have a certain load capacity Please avoid this terminal connect with GND in case that the interior components and parts be brokendown Operation warning Pleas...

Page 7: ...d and Estop input module and Spindle speed adjust M3 M8 M1 module are common GND between main power supply and output module there are photoelectric isolation The inputs of limited switch and Estop and so on are Common anode inside of the device there is 12VDC as common no need to connect external power supply Based on the reference of output GND interface output a 0 10V adjustable voltage to adju...

Page 8: ...utput interface spindle control output interface Estop and limited switch and tool setting input interface and so on Now we descript them in details as below 2 2 1 USB port As the Figure 2 2 showed Marked No 1 position is the USB port Mach3 connect to this board through the USB port 2 2 2 Main power input As Figure 2 2 showed No 1 terminal block is Main power input interface need input 12 40V abov...

Page 9: ...terface The silkprint INP1 INP2 GND INP3 INP4 INP5 INP6 INP7 INP8 INP9 GND IN10 IN11 IN12 IN13 IN14 IN15 IN16 GND 12V on the board connect to PIN1 16 of the mach3 Internal structure see as Figure2 3 2 lines Proximity Switch ordinary fretting switch drawing see as Figure2 4 Figure2 3 Internal structure drawing of Input interface Figure2 4 Probe Estop ordinary fretting switch input connection ...

Page 10: ...rial expansion interface As the Figure 2 2 showed Marked No 4 position is Serial expansion interface We can extend some other equipment from this interface Definition of the port is RXD TXD GND from left to right 2 2 5 MPG port As the Figure 2 2 showed the marked No 5 position interface is MPG port The pin order see as Figure 2 2 Definition of the PIN see as table 2 1 No Mark Definition 1 T1OUT TX...

Page 11: ...ase positive of the encoder 12 WHB B phase negative of the encoder 13 YIN Y axis select input 14 AIN A axis select input 15 X10IN 10 rate select input Table 2 1 MPG port definition 2 2 6 Universal output interface 2 As the Figure 2 2 show The marked No 6 is Universal output interface 2 This port type is DB15 OUT5 OUT16 are fixed on this port Internal structure see as Figure2 6 Definition see as ta...

Page 12: ...3 GND Ground and common end 14 XT14 Output14 15 XT16 Output16 Output in mach3 should be configured to PORT 2 Table 2 2 Definition of Output 2 2 2 Spindle control output Universal output interface 1 We define the interface from left are GND1 Output GND VSO 0 10V adjustable speed output OT1 OT2 OT3 OT4 Take Nowforeuer inverter as the example Spindle control output and the inverter connection showed ...

Page 13: ...setting speed max spindle speed Forexample if max spindle speed is 24000 current spindle speed is S 18000 so the VSO output voltage 10 18000 24000 7 5V Max spindle speed setting ports as showed sa Figure 2 4 open it from Pulley from Menu config The current spindle speed can be set by S directive or Mach 3 spindle setting speed module ...

Page 14: ...epper motor port As the Figure 2 2 show The marked No 8 are 6 axis stepper motor controller port They are X Y Z A B C from left to right Each axis s pin is defined as COM CP DIR from left to right Wiring method see as figure 2 9 Figure2 9 Wire method of Stepper motor driver connecting to NVCM ...

Page 15: ...VCM 13 Chapter 3 Software Installation 3 1 MACH3 Install MACH3 installation registration and USB plug ins See as Figure 3 1 Figure3 1 MACH3 soft installation First run the installation Mach3Version3 043 066 Into the first page See as Figure 3 2 ...

Page 16: ...ftware Installation Manual of NVCM 14 Figure3 2 MACH3 installation process 1 Click Next and then enter the page shown in Figure 3 3 Figure3 3 installation process 2 Select I agree and click Next See as Figure 3 4 ...

Page 17: ...CH3 installation process 3 Select the installation path click Next it can be installed on any disk and recommended to install the C drive or the D drive See as Figure 3 5 Figure3 5 MACH3 installation process 4 Click Next until completion Then restart the computer ...

Page 18: ...Chapter3 Software Installation Manual of NVCM 16 3 2 Plugin Install Copy the file NOVUSUN DLL to X mach3 plugin X is installation disk of mach3 ...

Page 19: ...the mach3mill Start mach3 software We enter plugin select dialog box See as Figure 4 1 You should copy NOVUSUN DLL to plguin folder first then you can see this dialog box Figure4 1 Plguin select dialog box Choose Novusun Novusun Plugin_ver 3 0b then click OK Then we enter main page of mach3 See as Figure 4 2 ...

Page 20: ...NVCM 18 Figure4 2 Open mach3 software 4 2 Software Common settings 4 2 1 Motor operating parameters setting Figure4 3 Motor operating parameter setting menu entry See as Figure 4 2 From submenu motor tuning of the menu config into the motor ...

Page 21: ...rive segment Such as pitch 2 5mm 2 phase motor 8 segments Calculation method is 8 200 2 5 640 Velocity The speed is the axial velocity Units is mm s Recommended settings 1500 Acceleration Units is mm s2 Recommended settings 200 Step Pulse Step Pulse Cannot be set it s 2 5us in default Dir Pulse Dir Pulse Cannot be set it s 2 5us in default Attention The parameters for each axis is not necessarily ...

Page 22: ...og box Figure4 6 Pin Port Dialog The sub pages you need to set include Motor Outputs Input Signals Output Signals and Spindle Setup First Click to enter Motor Outputs This page is to select the stepper motor control pin Because our usbmach3 interface board stepper motor signals are fixed So here only need to Select no need to select the specific pin See as Figure4 7 ...

Page 23: ...VCM 21 To make the Z axis to the same direction Z axis s Dir low should be set to Other axes s should be set as system need Figure4 7 Stepper motor port settings dialog Click Input Signals Into the input signal settings page See as Figure4 8 ...

Page 24: ...tion Optional Function include XYZABC6axis s Upper and lower limit XYZABC6axis s HOME point We set upper limit and home of XYZA to 3456 corresponding IN3IN4IN5IN6 of the board Figure4 9 Estop and Probe dialog ESTOP and probe Setting see as Figure 4 9 estop s pin number is 1 and probe s is 2 Click Spindle Setup switch to the spindle settings page See as Figure4 10 ...

Page 25: ...put 6 in Output Signal Setup dialog can be Configured into these 4 signals Here we only configure CW MIST FLOOD CW is controlled by OUT1 MIST is controlled by OUT2 Flood is controlled by OUT3 Here we note correspondence between 2 page Please select use spindle motor output if required PWM speed spindle And select PWM Control Our PWM pin fixedly arranged on a special pin on Stepper motor setting di...

Page 26: ...and machine So first step is to set the machine coordinate system Figure5 1 Main Screen of mach3 1 Set the machine original position switch As our request some machine set the original point at the coordinate positive direction some machines set the original point at the coordinate negative direction Mach 3 can search out the machine original point direction by the software setting As the pic 5 2 ...

Page 27: ...gative direction means searching original points at the positive direction As the pincture 5 3 shows X axis s original position is at the negative direction Y and Z s original points are at the positive direction Figure5 2 Click homing of Config Figure5 3 Motor Home and Softlimits dialog 2 Set soft limits ...

Page 28: ... than 0 As the Figure shows according to our current request we set our XYZ axis soft limited points area as 0 270 390 0 100 0 3 Searching for machine original points Figure5 4 Click REF ALL HOME to HOME all axis As Figure 5 4 shows press REF ALL HOME at main display page then XYZ A4 start to search for the original points if you need more axis s operation edit macro command or press Alt 7 into Di...

Page 29: ... working piece 0 point it related with the working G code file so the user must be very familiar to his own working G code As our example shows the 0 point is on the center of the working piece surface so we just move the tool tip to this position 2 clear Coordinate As 5 5 shows press Zero button on each axis then clear to 0 for each axis After operation the result shows as Figure 5 6 Figure5 5 Pr...

Page 30: ...creen after ZERO all axis 5 3 Open G code file and run As Figure 5 7 shows press load G code botton at the main page or open Load G code at main menu File open your G code It displayed as Figure 5 8 showing then press button cycle start then machine start to work ...

Page 31: ...Chapter5 Using of software Manual of NVCM 29 Figure5 7 Press Load G Code and open your G code Figure5 8 After opening G code press Cycle Start and start to work ...

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