On Wednesday 04 November 2009, Gene Heskett wrote: >With apologies to Douglas Adams, is there a way to make axis treat the A >tables rotation as a rotation the xy plane about the x=0,y=0 point? > >This would be very useful in visualizing the progress of a part being cut > on the A tables face when it is mounted face up on the xy table, which is > my next project, making those sprockets I asked about on IRC yesterday. > >The current apparent default rotation of the bit in a line aligned to the x >axis is, shall we say, less than useful to me. Since the bit, at least on > my machine is fixed, facing down, even the default doesn't make sense when > its really the x plane that should rotate so that the cut face on the part > is always up. > >Am I making any sense here? > PS: Since I updated, I note that the A table rotation is not being displayed in axis in any format other than the text line for the A angle, and I read in the new docs that C is the "about the z axis". Is this assignable in the .ini file somehow?
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