On Fri, Sep 03, 2010 at 12:15:43PM -0500, Igor Chudov wrote: > Guys, one more related question. > > What is the name of the rotary axis parallel to X? A?
Yes A is customarily the one that rotates around X > What is the name of the rotary axis that is the spindle on a milling > machine? Or does a spindle not count as a rotary axis? All I want from > the encoder on the spindle is to do rigid tapping. I do not want to > use the spindle for precise positioning. In EMC that's not an axis. You just hook up the spindle encoder to the motion controller to get tapping. Chris ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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