Is this 5-axis machine possible with LinuxCNC?

I directed your question to my reseller and they anwered ''Esprit requires machine kinematics to work with.'' I will be sending them the cad files that I have for the machine and they will bring that into the program. They also said that you can active RTCP for simultanious 5-axis machining but I don't understand how it is connected to the TCP.

So, it sounds like Esprit can work either way. Which way would you prefer to work?

Maybe this helps?

infosys.beckhoff.com/english.php?content...terpointrtcp.htm&id=

As far as automatic machining is concerned you wouldn't see much difference. But when jogging the rotary axes the behaviour is very different.

I think I should start simple and work my way up. I am an experienced cnc programmer and an operator but I am inexperieced when it comes to building one. I built a 4-axis router on Mach3 before but it is much simpler than what I am trying to achieve with this machine.

I am planning to follow tutorials shared in the forum and Youtube.I am open to any advice. You are very helpful, thank you.

It definitely helped! I now understand what it is clearly.

I will be happy to use RTCP but I don't know how hard it is to configure in comparison to configuring the machine without RTCP.

Hi Andy!

After our discussion about this 5 axis machine, I bought a PC and installed LinuxCNC 2.9.0-pre0. Everything is running fine.

I also bought a Mesa 7i76E card, arriving soon.

I already own 3 different 3 axis router that run Mach3, so I will be able to test my config on one of them.

I came this far and now I want to modify existing kins modules to fit my needs. Unfortunately I am not a programmer and I think I need to learn how to chance existing files. I am learning to code in Python on YouTube right now.

What advice would you give me going forward?