Chris Radek wrote: > On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 09:45:28AM -0400, Ed wrote: > > >>On another note, has anyone done much with electronic >>gearing? I have an old horizontal mill that I would like to convert to a >>gear hobber, > > > Another approach might be based on G33, aka spindle synchronized > motion (most commonly used for threading on a lathe) > > You can do synchronized motion in any direction, even rotary.
My thought was to synchronize spindle and cutter then feed across with another servo and possibly an axis to drive the knee to set depth of cut. Ed. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. It's the best place to buy or sell services for just about anything Open Source. http://sourceforge.net/services/buy/index.php _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
