rotary axis machines

[cabnet636]

moto i have been thinking of you all day and the reason is we need to get you moving on this, after deciding to go with the larger rotary, i have one that has a gearbox and all on it 33" of length and we may be able to lower it as it is currentle set for 12" dia

i just sent you a pm

jim

[rgoldner]

ok this was too easy, i just had to do some measurement, CAMaster x3 had an extra 3" of over travel beyond the amount required to get the outside router to clear table, (actually 4" if one wanted a tight limit switch boundary) after i set that all i had to do was remove gantry bolts (make sure you have a clamp on the gantry and plates) and slide it down 2", i now have 9" over travel on the right router and 7" radius on the lathe, have decided to go ahead and have a set on 10' 2x4 rails attached which will give me 96" of rotary axis toolpathing area.

jim

Hi Jim. I forgot to tell you (in case you didn't know) CAMaster said that they were going to give away a copy of the Indexer Wizards to every rotary axis customer. You should qualify.

[cabnet636]

rich, that is excellent! i have been focused on the machines all week, including two church renovations we are involved in, the machine factor moved faster than i expected. i am gonna help moto out i just cant seem to get him to call me!!

jim

[cabnet636]

getting there!! more tommorrow

[moto633]

Looking good JIM!
I been staring at mine off and on all day between cutting and sprayin laq!

Nick

[cabnet636]

this is thew one i have been telling you about, we will get a lathe on you machine.

jim

[moto633]

I've got it mostly worked out in my head with a z mounted on the backside of my gantry arm like you suggested and i think i can extend two rails from under the table to carry the lathe.

I need to hire some one so I can play with fun stuff and still make money! NAAAWWWW

[cabnet636]

not too much longer!!

jim

[moto633]

That looks like 8 feet of colum turning FUN!!!

[cabnet636]

yep i got the whole 96 out of it!!

[JCTalbert,LLC]

Glad to ee Some guys using a rotary...I purchased 1 with my machine and haven't tried anything with it... YET... Looks like I found a good home and wealth of informative people...

[rgoldner]

Glad to ee Some guys using a rotary...I purchased 1 with my machine and haven't tried anything with it... YET... Looks like I found a good home and wealth of informative people...

If the reason that you haven't used it yet is that you don't have software for it, please take a look at my website. The Indexer Wizards is a very inexpensive solution for people that want to create cylindrical objects with flutes, spirals, polygons, wrapped carvings, etc.

[Greolt]

Glad to ee Some guys using a rotary...I purchased 1 with my machine and haven't tried anything with it... YET... Looks like I found a good home and wealth of informative people...

Welcome aboard JD. Dust that rotary axis off and get into it.

We have a number of rotary users here. Most of the discussion is about what we can achieve with the software we have (Vectric) without selling the kids to buy real 4 axis CAM.

Using utilities like Rich's Indexer Wizards and CNCWrapper etc.

See this thread for some examples, http://www.vectric.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=35&t=6449

Greg

[cabnet636]

making chips!!

jim

[Greolt]

Now the fun begins.

I see in the last pic that you can utilise the main high frequency spindle on the rotary axis. That's good.

I had thought that only the outer most router was going to reach.

So I guess you can have a two tool operation going uninterrupted.

Greg