Tangential from X and Y axis

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Tangential from X and Y axis

Postby motogeek » Tue Oct 24, 2017 6:01 am

Is it possible to steer one of the axis tangentially from x and y axis? This would be great for a knife type operation. I don't know if this could be a macro type of operation or not. Thanks again for a great product!!!
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Re: Tangential from X and Y axis

Postby beefy » Tue Oct 24, 2017 6:27 pm

Sheetcam has a drag knife module that can be purchased.

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Re: Tangential from X and Y axis

Postby cncdrive » Tue Oct 24, 2017 10:12 pm

Currently there is no automatic XY plane tangential vector control in the UCCNC.
You can tangential control a knife only using g-code and for that you need a CAM software which supports outputting the tangent angles into the g-code file, e.g. with programming the A-axis movements as the tangential knife angle.
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Re: Tangential from X and Y axis

Postby Gary Campbell » Tue Oct 24, 2017 11:55 pm

moto..
another option: nicknamed a "post post". reads a gcode file and adds the c axis degrees for the tangential. This can be done in any spreadsheet program.
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