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vtsteam:
Hi Pekka, conceptually, take a lathe bed, add a  headstock and stepper driven spindle.

Add a carriage, leadscrew, and tailstock.

Drive the leadscrew with a stepper.

Add a grinder on a cross slide and way (and/or vertical way)  and ordinary grindstone, with axis parallel to the lathe bed.

You can either adjust its distance by hand wheel, or stepper drive it.

Total: two or three cnc driven axes. Lots of refinements possible, but in general, that's the concept.

As for the complexities of angles, helices, etc.for side dressing end mills .....in my opinion, that's what spreadsheet calculators do quite easily.

 I've written spreadsheets that output G-code for specific purposes.

vtsteam:
ps. I like the M.C Escher machine base above....  :poke:

sparky961:

--- Quote from: PekkaNF on May 10, 2018, 05:36:32 AM ---This looks pretty compact, and workpiece is easy to reach, but cartesians are all stacked:


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The ANCA TG4 is in the configuration above.

PekkaNF:
That is a very compact machine for the work envelope.

How easy it is to set up?

Pekka

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