Horizontal Spindle on 3 Axis

Hi!

I have recently implemented LinuxCNC on a 3 axis woodworking cnc router with multiple spindles.

For the vertical spindle, operation is normal using gcode however the machine is also equipped with a couple of horizontal spindles used to bore horizintally into the sides of the workpiece.

How would you guys go about achieving this? Is there a simple way to 'rotate' the coordinate system temporarily about the X or Y axis? This could be handy so gcode for the vertical spindle can be also used with the horizontal ones.

Thank you!

I don't know if this is possible or would even work.
Maybe when the horizontal spindle is used, a script can swap pins between X and Z step and direction pins.
Then changed back when a vertical tool is used.

I don't know if you can do that on the fly or not, or put it in with a toolchange command, but it seems like it may work.

terans1085 wrote: How would you guys go about achieving this? Is there a simple way to 'rotate' the coordinate system temporarily about the X or Y axis?

You can create separate configs that allocate different motors to the axes, but you need to stop LinuxCNC and restart to do that.

Do the spindles move up and down? You could use W for the horizontal spindle height then cut in X and Y with them.