> -----Original Message----- > From: Andy Pugh [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: November-25-19 10:18 PM > To: Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC) > Subject: Re: [Emc-users] Helical Gears > > > > > On 26 Nov 2019, at 01:21, John Dammeyer <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > Nope. One tooth valley at a time with a gear cutter on an arbor > > It�s worth considering hobbing, in theory it makes better gears and jobs are > fairly cheap on eBay, compared to a full set of involute cutters. > > To cut helical gears (regardless of spindle orientation) you need to move A in > proportion to X. If you have enough control of A to do that you might as well > link it to the spindle encoder. It�s a few lines of HAL code. > > A tilting dividing head (like the BS0 pattern) could be used with a fixed > vertical spindle and coordinated XZA moves and an involute cutter, though.
This was the video I first saw with the movable table mounted on the standard table. https://youtu.be/oiBU7yxkpzc > > _______________________________________________ > Emc-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
