big 5axis mazak horizontal cnc mill

Aceria

I'm very interested I have seen it used on a Heidenhain machine

Really cool

You can rotate the head and then machine away like normal.

Anyway I'll get the machine cutting and see how I go

You can rotate the head and then machine away like normal.

Exactly. This is why it's so much easier to demonstrate the value of TWP on machines with tool side rotation.

forum.linuxcnc.org/media/kunena/attachme...5994/TWP_example.gif

Heh - I have never used or explored G68.x or G53.x. I probably would have if I was the operator on my machine if my machine did not have LinuxCNC controlling it. When I found OpenCNC (in 1997) and then EMC/EMC2 (~2000) I stopped exploring Fanuc (or any other) controls.
Sounds like LinuxCNC has some catching up to do if anyone wants to use those features.

Sounds like LinuxCNC has some catching up to do if anyone wants to use those features.

The inclusion of switchable kinematics has made it possible:

forum.linuxcnc.org/show-your-stuff/49103...-head?start=0#271334

I have thoughts on that (and other matters) but we are changing the point of this thread. If we are going to go deeper we should do it in another thread?

Sure, maybe we could continue here:

forum.linuxcnc.org/10-advanced-configura...stead-of-rtcp#295155
 

Feel free to discuss here

Only reason to make this thread was too sure people how good Linuxcnc is especially on a big CNC.

And how we deal with potential issues like no jerk control.

And 1 line look ahead for 4axis

Plus any other issues.

I have 80 tools in magazine is that a issue still?

Looks like we are good to go 1000 tools

github.com/LinuxCNC/linuxcnc/commit/b51e...95814988a3f972bc0763

For those interested in Tilted Work Plane implementation on 5axis machines with work side rotation see:
forum.linuxcnc.org/show-your-stuff/55248...utating-table-rotary

Note that this covers also non-nutating kinematics (just set the nutation angle to 90°) and covers BC as well as AC table configurations (adjust 'table-angle' between 0..90°)