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What is the W axes incremented in?
How do I set it for thous or mm?
Just got everything working on my Mill well I still need to get my tach working but I have tested it at my desk.
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Sure would appreciate an answer!!
TouchDRO is worthless for 4 axes without knowing.
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Doesn't anyone use the W axes?
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Sorry for no replies, Ralph.
The W axis is added to the axis of your choice, usually the Z axis for milling machines.
It is intended to be used as the knee height for a mill with a knee, and added to the Z axis.
It is NOT a stand alone 4th axis.
It's units are the same as the rest of the machine axis. You calibrate the W axis along with the Z axis when you set that up.
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The W axis is designed for your type of setup.
You connect the W axis to the knee height and the Z axis to the spindle height. You then set up TouchDRO to sum the W axis and Z axis. The result is the exact table height from your zero reference, no matter which one you adjust.
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04-19-2017, 04:11 AM
(This post was last modified: 04-19-2017, 04:26 AM by Eskimo2k.)
The fact that you might adjust both is exactly the reason for summing the two axis.
No matter which one you adjust, spindle, knee, or both, the Z axis on the display will always display how far you are from reference zero.
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Well I have seen it working, don't really understand what I am seeing but that will come as I use it more.
One of these days I will even check to see how accurate the scales are reading, so far I just been pleased
with seeing them read.
Ralph