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feature request: 5th axis

Open Dirk-- opened this issue 5 years ago • 6 comments

Thanks for your work!

Any plans to add a fifth axis?

Thanks, Dirk

Dirk-- avatar Dec 08 '18 15:12 Dirk--

Hello,

What do you mean ? In 3D viewer ? For now, 5th axis should be supported everywhere except for 3d view. But representing path with 5 axxis gets difficult :) Do you have an example opf 5 axis GCode that you can send me to try ?

cncgoko avatar Dec 08 '18 15:12 cncgoko

having 0.3.5 on my win64-machine, I see only 'A' on Command panel and can add 'A' only to DRO ...

Dirk-- avatar Dec 08 '18 15:12 Dirk--

You're correct. It's not available in those panels. What controller do you use ? G2 ? TinyG ? Grbl ? Something else ?

cncgoko avatar Dec 08 '18 16:12 cncgoko

right now, just doing some research. g2core will be set up next week ... https://www.djuke.nl/index.php?page=shop.product_details&category_id=1&flypage=flypage.tpl&product_id=406&vmcchk=1&option=com_virtuemart&Itemid=8

Dirk-- avatar Dec 08 '18 16:12 Dirk--

Adding B & C axis in DRO and Command panel is no big deal so yes it can be done easily. Displaying it in the 3d preview might be difficult :) Not sure how to display it, since 5th axis could be used for different purpose.

cncgoko avatar Dec 08 '18 16:12 cncgoko

this might be of interest:

  • https://github.com/winder/Universal-G-Code-Sender/issues/1068
  • https://github.com/cncjs/cncjs ( do not know anything about viewer's capabilities, at least 6-axis support at DRO and command-panel)
  • http://linuxcnc.org/docs/devel/html/motion/5-axis-kinematics.html

Dirk-- avatar Dec 08 '18 16:12 Dirk--