Jon Elson wrote: > Igor Chudov wrote: > >>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? >> > > It would be much better to make the knee the W axis (auxiliary linear > axis parallel > to the Z axis). EMC2 has facilities to handle an extra set of Cartesian > coordinates. > I think trivkins will still support this scheme, although coordinated > feedrate with both > Z and W will probably not do anything smart. In fact, I'd sort of guess > that any > feedrates apply only to XYZ, and auxiliary axes will only move so that > they complete > at the same time as XYZ. This is probably all you want, anyway. The > point is, I THINK, > that a move in XYW will not compute the feedrate the same way as an XYZ > move. > > Jon
On a completely mechanical note, be aware that the Z and W may not be parralel. If you feed Z then feed W you may end up with a bore that has a kink in it. I suppose you could feed both at the same time and get a diagonal bore. ;-) Didn't Stuart do something with something like this? Ed. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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
