Very cool, Andy! Well done video, also. Perhaps you should put this and other videos in the showcase section of the Lcnc website.
On Sat, Oct 17, 2020, 3:05 PM andy pugh <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sun, 7 Jun 2020 at 17:13, andy pugh <[email protected]> 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 > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users > _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
