On Thu, Sep 2, 2010 at 4:53 PM, Stephen Wille Padnos <spad...@sover.net> wrote: > Igor Chudov wrote: >> My Bridgeport Series II Interact 2 CNC mill has a Z axis in the quill. >> >> http://igor.chudov.com/projects/Bridgeport-Series-II-Interact-2-CNC-Mill/ >> >> It has Z travel of only about 4.8 inches. Which is actually adequate >> for most of what I do. >> >> But, the other nice thing that it has is air assisted knee. So the >> knee is very easy to move if supported by air. And I started >> wondering, what if I put a servo drive on the knee? Then I would have, >> perhaps, 20 total inches of vertical travel and I could do big stuff, >> bore or drill big holes, etc. Life would be much more fun. It would >> not need to be fast. >> > There are people who use the knee for Z, and lock the quill.
That goes kind of too far. >> So, my question is, does EMC2 support "two Z axes" and if so, what >> sorts of EMC2 facilities would I need for this. Different kinematics? >> etc >> > No, but there is the "W" axis, which is defined as a linear axis > parallel to Z. You could position W to get the right "range", and still > use the quill for Z. Sounds interesting. Could I move W and other axes at the same time, just curious. Thanks! i ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net Dev2Dev email is sponsored by: Show off your parallel programming skills. Enter the Intel(R) Threading Challenge 2010. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-thread-sfd _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
