Andy has implemented it on a mill http://wiki.linuxcnc.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?Hobbing
And I used the ideas from that page and did a stepper version on an old mill for someone and also an old hobbing machine made by Barber Colman http://www.collection.archivist.info/searchv13.php?searchstr=barber+colman and http://www.archivist.info/cnc/hob2/ there are some more thoughts I wrote up some years ago http://www.collection.archivist.info/hobbing.html in that diagram there is a differential, a hal comp has recently been implemented so that is now possible Dave Caroline On 30/07/2015, richsh...@comcast.net <richsh...@comcast.net> wrote: > I am adapting a version of the "little hobber" and want to use linux-CNC to > do the ratio division between the hob and the work spindles. Additionally, a > third axis that is actually the feed needs to be incorporated. Any thoughts. > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > _______________________________________________ > Emc-users mailing list > Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users