Hello all.
I've finally finished my year long 5 axis build; It was supposed to only take 3 months.
I jumped in both feet, with only my brains, this forum and youtube to help me; having never built a milling machine before.
Hard for me to ask for help when i'm so close to the end, but I could really use it on the last part to expedite the completion of this machine.
super proud to almost have it done, learned soo much along the way, from wiring to g code to technical metal skills, love it. Long story short:
On my head to head gantry style machine. I have the B axis configured to rotate around the Z axis, (b is like a spinning top) and the A axis to rotate the spindle angle relative to XY plane. (A is like a steering wheel).
mach needs to know the distance from the tool end, to the B axis to know how far to drop the z when b is at an angle to keep the tool tip at the same height. where do I program this? is there a mach4 plugin? what is the term for this?
I don't need the offset for the tool programed in. I can, and would prefer to figure that out.
Cheers,
MDA
DDDllc