Re: RE: 5-Axis-EMC

> From: Jon Elson <jmelson@...>

<s>It looks like at last

> this will be properly built into EMC, and the setup should become
> pretty formulaic, perhaps just a set of parameters in a file loaded at
> run time. I do want to put a single rotary axis on my mill for cutting
> gears, busts of people's heads, and maybe even turbine blades.
> It might be real nice to have all this set up so that I can normally have
> an A axis, but move the (NC) dividing head to become a B axis when
> desired, and also put a fixed tilt on it, as if the A axis was stacked on
> a B axis set to some fixed value for best turbine blade access.
> With a nice little table that could be read in, this would be a very easy
> thing to do.

Paul Corner reported that there seems to be a file missing in the
sourceforge stuff. So my advertisement may be premature. You are still
welcome to download but don't be surprised if you get a missing file
message during the compile. --

Ray