Stuart and friends; I have been thinking about this manual MPG rigid tapping and while its fairly straight forward on a normal 3 axis mill or 2 axis lathe there needs to be more for 5 axis applications. Strange that Stuart didn't mention it.
I think it might require a new custom G & M code that would lock motion to be perpendicular to the hole's plane. Pardon I'm hunting for the best way to describe this. A 5 axis machine with the tool tilted in the AB axis would define the hole plane to be perpendicular to the tool in 2 axis. This would define the movement of the spindle. The other issue being like Stuart mentioned, This will require a very high count encoder and a very strong and responsive spindle. This option is not for mediocre equipment. Now - I was told my uncles (my toy) Mori Seiki SV50 can do this, you must just switch to IPR vrs IPM and do a M19 G84 Fxxxx. The 30hp spindle will allow a M03 S0001, and I dare you to try and stop that spindle even at 1 RPM. Its great to have plenty of overkill power on tap. (pardon the pun) Greg ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Beautiful is writing same markup. Internet Explorer 9 supports standards for HTML5, CSS3, SVG 1.1, ECMAScript5, and DOM L2 & L3. Spend less time writing and rewriting code and more time creating great experiences on the web. Be a part of the beta today. http://p.sf.net/sfu/beautyoftheweb _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
