Re: Hexapod question

--- In CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO@yahoogroups.com, Dave Dillabough <dgd@b...>
wrote:

> Take a look at http://www.hexel.com/ at the Hexabot. It looks

like a

> Bridgeport mill with the knee and table replaced by a round t-

slotted table

> that is controlled by a hexapod mechanism. There are some neat

videos of

> the machine working. Makes you want to build one.
>

Dave,

What they did is swing the head around to the back, the table/knee
is still there (at least on the one I saw demo'd).

In the demo I saw the aluminum workpiece was the most chewed up mess
you've ever seen. I don't have a clue what the problem was, the
cuts were not heavy for a B'port. After seeing that machine in
action I lost all interest in hexapods.