Re: RTLinux lessons, and EDM's

batwings@... wrote:

> From: batwings@...
>
> At 11:42 PM 10/19/99 +0100, you wrote:
> >> No, not at all. The devices that hold each end of the wire are capable of
> >> moving in 3 axes, so it is at least a 6-axis system.
>
> Why would they have to move on more than 2 axes each to do that?

To carve out extremely complicated shapes, like turbine blades, from a
block of material. But, they want one machine to be capable of making anything
that can be made by wire EDM. So, without repositioning the part, they might
want to cut through holes into all 5 accessible sides of a box, for instance.
I'm pretty sure that there are real uses for these 6 or more axis machines, but
not for what I'm doing.

Jon