On 17 November 2014 21:10, Marshland Engineering <marshl...@marshland.co.nz> wrote: > The Chinese ballscrews are rolled and not therefore not as accurate as ground, > or so I have read.
It is arguable how much accuracy you actually need. What is the tolerance on 12" distances on the parts you make? LinuxCNC also supports screw-mapping if you can accurately measure the absolute position. -- atp If you can't fix it, you don't own it. http://www.ifixit.com/Manifesto ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download BIRT iHub F-Type - The Free Enterprise-Grade BIRT Server from Actuate! Instantly Supercharge Your Business Reports and Dashboards with Interactivity, Sharing, Native Excel Exports, App Integration & more Get technology previously reserved for billion-dollar corporations, FREE http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=157005751&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users