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hglucas
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2 router heads one machine
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May 04, 2012, 11:09:16 AM »
I have a question. I am retrofitting my old CNC router. My router has 2 heads on the xy axis and I have 4 drivers controlling xyza. My old router controller was DOS and I could set the offset for the A head inside the program one time and never touch touch it again. I believe it was WinCNC. Both heads would operate independent of each other. I could router with one head and drill with the other Just by entering Z and A. I did not have to enter any other g code.
How would I set up Mach3 to do this.
I hope I explained this well enough to understand what I am saying.
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HimyKabibble
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Re: 2 router heads one machine
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May 04, 2012, 11:22:46 AM »
Sounds like a perfect application for fixture offsets. Use G54 for the router head, G55 for the drill head. Set the offset between them in your start-up script, and you're all set.
Regards,
Ray L.
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Ray L.
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