On Sun, 7 Jun 2020 at 17:13, andy pugh <bodge...@gmail.com> wrote: > > My milling machine has a (manual) swivelling head but no quill. > > I have long fancied the idea of setting up a pseudo-quill. > > My idea is to add B and W axes, where B has to be jogged to suit the actual > angle head is set to, and then moves in W will be coordinated moves in X and > Z.
Well, I had a job which required this, and made a configuration: https://gist.github.com/andypugh/03b9ac265a1db50cb748d3449d3264dd The kins is slightly wrong, but usable. The table moves the wrong way when jogging in B as it thinks that the table is above the pivot. But once the B axis is set it works as-expected. Here is a video of the job which needed it: https://youtu.be/PvBrDdwYTfw -- atp "A motorcycle is a bicycle with a pandemonium attachment and is designed for the especial use of mechanical geniuses, daredevils and lunatics." — George Fitch, Atlanta Constitution Newspaper, 1912 _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
