CNC 4th Axis at work

[JUICEGUY]

The audio comment on the video should answer that comment.

[OneBiOzZ]

is it just me or does it look like its not really milling a thing? :P

[GingerKarma]

I only see three axes - X is rotary, Y and Z are linear.

[manword1]

its looks this mechs.like very hard to use anyone agree or^^

[omcentire]

Your CNC sounds like a CYLON Centurion!

[rickymewis1983]

man i love this i have been machining for a few years now still learning alot i machine alot of metals titanium and inconel etc but machining wood just looks like so much fun i would love do something like this on the side. how much would a cnc machines for routing wood cost? great video by the way i love working with wood and to combine that with my machining experience to make things like that would be awesome

[daltonboard]

what kind of step motor i have to use for a rotary axis/table ?

[daltonboard]

what kind of step motor i have to use for a rotary axis/table ?

[daltonboard]

what kind of step motor i have to use for a rotary axis/table ?

[Seretur00]

Congrats on the machine and the lovely column :D

is the machine homemade? I'm making one with a friend and I'm considering adding a 4th axis as a removable addon to the table

[hankboschen]

CNC is a 5 x 10 Techno 3 axis with a rotary table.

[gigelcostel25]

Nice work. What software did you use to make the project? How did you do the post-process?

[hankboschen]

Enroute

I don't understand your second question.

HanK

[APBriggs2009]

It's a 3 axis Milling Machine with a rotary table set up as a 4th axis. Of course in this example the machine is only using 3 of the 4 axis of travel. Nice machine though and it's doing some quality work!

[davidjereb]

Ofcourse it's 4 axis. You have up-down, left-right, fwd-back and rotation over the x axis. That makes 4.

[TheAristocratt]

Thats awesome man, doesn't matter if it's 3 axis or 4 axis, it's a beautiful piece of art that's in your living room :) Lucky guy

[Felizitas13]

WTF NICE

[2bomberman2]

It's actually called Rotary milling. Y axis stays in the center of the round part.

[hankboschen]

It is all semantics. I titled it 4th axis because that's what Techno (mfg) calls it. There are three ways to move the tool and one way to rotate the work, but I can only do three of the four at the same time.

[Johandyman]

how is it only 3 axis?

there are three axis's on the tool part and one axis that rotates the column, thats 4... to me anyways :D

[hankboschen]

That's all I have.

[endaki]

Good job. But only 3 axis :)

[Choscura]

you should feel stupid by now. :)

[myfukingusernames]

WOW. GOOG JOB MAN

[jkw0789]

That is rediculous! How exactly do you make a 3D drawing and put it on a CNC Mill machine. We had a 3 axis at my old high school, but I've never seen a four.

[hankboschen]

It sits on a friend's desk.

I wouldn't call that ridiculous.

Read the posts.

[pivarellas]

AMAZING!!!!!!!!!!

Did program it with Mastercam?

Thank You.

[hankboschen]

EnRoute 3

[tdcadguy]

For anyone interested...

HAAS machining centers (and probably others) allows you to temporarily exchange one axis for another. You can program a flat XYZ machining operation, and swap one axis (the Y axis in this case) for the A Axis. I used it a lot a few years ago.

What ever axis you swap, double check your +/- coordinates because it will move your A Axis in the +/- as well.

[hankboschen]

YUP !

That's how I did it.

Hank

[BigKupaL]

An how do you swap Y-axis to A-axis? Are you saying I run the post code as flat and replace y-axis to a-axis?

[tdcadguy]

No, you don't just change Ynn.nnnn to Ann.nnnn. A-axis movements are normally in degrees instead of distance.

You program in a flat plane on all axis and use the G-code to swap two axis. You'll provide the part diameter in the appropriate parameter so the controller can calculate feed rate and distance for axis movement. Of course X-axis and Z-axis will run as they normally would.

I'm sure that hankboschen can give a better insight to his personal technique.

[hankboschen]

Yup!

[tdcadguy]

Nice engraving.

To those folks that are overly concerned about how many axis are used, "4th Axis" refers to the A Axis.

[aleksanderaa]

I see only 3 axes.

[spearsniper]

X, Y, Z (left to right, front to back, spindle up & down, and A axis (rotation of the workpiece).

Looks like 4 axis of movement to me.

[aleksanderaa]

Yes but,a piece like this only needs 3 axes;

Y,Z and the rotation axes. I think it's also using thes three in the

work proces you are showing. This is only engraving.

[b0rd3n]

hrmm... the spindle has to rise and lower too... hence the Z axis up/down...

[aleksanderaa]

Can't you see a Z up there? Yes, Z axes is the

spindle (up and down ).

[hankboschen]

Thats correct

[hankboschen]

Nope, Just three

[hankboschen]

True

[hankboschen]

Three axis it is..Very good!

[tinaruijie]

Great

[drumrted]

I would like to learn more about this machine and technique.....