Cut two perpendicular sides of a piece of wood that is fastened down so it can not move and check with your carpenters square.
John On 21 Sep 2008 at 16:05, Christopher Purcell wrote: > I would like to improve my home-made 3D wood carving router. It has > stepper-driven 1m long THK ball screws (bless you Ebay) which seem to > be moving exactly as EMC2 commands, now that I have Helical couplers > fixing the backlash. The next thing I want to check and maybe tweak > is the perpendicularity of the 3 axes, which I bolted down using only > a carpenters square and level as guidance. This is in a home wood > working shop so the only instrumentation available is a dial > indicator. If I can measure the axes, then corrections can be included > in EMC, presumably as hinted at in the kinematics chapter of the > Integrators handbook. > > How do you measure the perpendicularity of 3 axes of a mill? > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's > challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & > win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event > anywhere in the world > http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ > _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
