Down Sizing to 5 axis.

[Mister Mills]

Fusion 360 supposedly does 5 axis cam. I have never really used it and I'm sure its a ball breaker to use unless you have learned a bit about it. As for the controller, There has gotta be something out there for reasonable money. Anything is possible if you bang your head off a wall for long enough!!! I will keep you all in the loop when I figure it all out.

It can be done, It has been done............................It will be done again!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Evengravy]

Fusion 360 supposedly does 5 axis cam. I have never really used it and I'm sure its a ball breaker to use unless you have learned a bit about it. As for the controller, There has gotta be something out there for reasonable money. Anything is possible if you bang your head off a wall for long enough!!! I will keep you all in the loop when I figure it all out.

It can be done, It has been done............................It will be done again!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I wonder controller wise if the Mesa cards would be worth a look. They seem to be well regarded by folk over on linuxcnc due to the configurability, performance and input/output count. When I get re-started on the lathe cnc I'm going to go that route for encoder and turret as a single parallel port just won't cut it for everything. I've seen other folk do 5th axis with that hardware, so I know it's possible.

This one's pretty neat: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=51jICcUkhhM and runs on mesa hardware

I'm not sure how solid it would be though...

[Mister Mills]

I have a UC300ETH and dual break out board on the way. Uccnc to run the machine as opposed to mach3. I have never used either of them so fingers crossed! :) She's also getting a full Square rail, Ballscrew and Motor upgrade. Not exactly what I had in mind when I started, but thats the buzz of building I guess. None of the Items have arrived just yet so I have just been pottering about with some design Ideas. All going well I should be able to post some updates in the next few weeks.
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