Re: EMC Hexapod page for the handbook

[Doug Fortune <pentam-at-home.com>]

Ray wrote:

> List
>
> I'd like to draw together information for a comprehensive hexapod page for
> the handbook.  I should have taken notes while Dave was thrashing this out
> for NAMES but there were just to many people with questions.
>
> If you would all post sources, links, pointers to archived messages,
> experience, even tales from the shop/lab/bench/show,  I'll connect all of
> your stuff in one large resource file on the handbook.

By swinging the head of a bridgeport around 180 degrees
to the back of the machine, and placing a Hexapod platform
there, and locking the quill in place, one can achieve 5 axis
machining - see description and pictures here:

http://www.mmsonline.com/articles/0900rt1.html