On Thu, Jun 15, 2017 at 2:07 AM, andy pugh <bodge...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 15 June 2017 at 08:08, theman whosoldtheworld <bleachk...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> there are some possibility that the max joint/axis number become more than >> 0-8 in future? >> > > It might well increase in the release, but I am not sure how many machines > need coordinated movement in more than 9 joints.
If MK is ever to be useful with robots it could use the ability to control a few dozen joints. It depends on one's approach to a multi arm/leg robot. You can treat it as two 6 DOF arms or as one 12 DOF assembly. Might be easier to assume 12DOF if the motions are to be synchronized in the same coordinate system. Also to be useful the g-code interpret would have to be 100% separated from motion planning so it could use some other command stream. Yes g-code is OK for pre-programmed movement but robots can decide on their own what to do, But for milling machines, hard to see why more than 6 would be needed Yes there are reasonable affordable robots with 20 joints. -- Chris Albertson Redondo Beach, California ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
