Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] Digest Number 1837

Yeth

Shoot! And I was hoping to get some free 5 axis contouring code to run on
my hexapod! I confess to being old and a bit dense here but how do you
keep cutter rotatation "tangent" to an arc in 3d? Perhaps you could
explain the difference between tangent and normal in this context.

I'd look for help in the files you posted but I don't believe that I have
the ability to read a MS 2000.doc file. I also see that Yahoo requires
cookies and don't allow the ask before setting option. I seem to exist in
the stone'd age. Perhaps you could attach a copy of those files off list?
Plain text would be prefered but doc 98,97,95, wpd, or xywrite would be
possible if I saddle the horse and carry a disk to the neighbors. Or are
these files to big for a disk?

Ray

>    From: "yethdear0" <yethdear@...>
> Subject: Re: 2.5 axis vs. 3 axis
>
> 5 axis? The key words here were full 3D and "tangent" not "normal" to
> the surface.