On Fri, Mar 16, 2007 at 11:00:44PM -0500, Stuart Stevenson wrote: > Gentlemen, > I am looking at putting EMC2 on a CNC tool and cutter grinder. This > machine is an eight axis machine. Is it possible to extend the axis quantity > to eight or more? What would be the limiting factor? Processor speed? Ram? > This will not be a high speed motion machine. I am running the emc2-head > distribution. > thanks > Stuart
If some of the axes are used independently (say, only for indexing of some kind), you could use custom M codes to index while the six coordinated axes are held still. This would require some advanced setup in HAL but it's possible. Chris ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
