5 Axis Simulation Help needed!

Hey all,

@Turboss and I have been working on the vtk back plotter and making some great progress in improving its functionality, but we are getting into an area where neither have been yet with linuxcnc which is the 5 axis realm.  we were wondering if there are any 5 axis linuxcnc users in here that may be able to help lend a hand with a few things such as program generation and configuration help since it doesn't seem to be a config that the builders can make (seem to be capped at 4 axis, guessing its for a reason..lol).

If you have a working config/5 axis machine using tcp and switchkins, we would very much appreciate any assistance you could provide to take some of the learning curve out of things and allow us to get the simulation backplotter dialed in for each type of machine config and have the machine simulations plot correctly with the graphical representation. we plan to pull that data out of the ini and add in sections of the backplotter code to accomodate each type and allow how the graphical machine representation along with the gcode files interact.  as you can see in the short video below, we have the 5 axis machine simulation working sort of but just need to better define some parameters to determine if the machine moves or the work envelope moves and all of the camera translation magic.  it should be super sweet when done and be a very useful tool for being able to prove out complex gcode in linuxcnc before going to the machine itself and or having it on the machine itself for some additional cool factor!

Any help or guidance is greatly appreciated!

Chris

 

awesome! do you think you could help use make one for the machine setup above so we can dip our feet and start troubleshooting some things in vtk?

i have, i have actually started trying to incorporate them into the 5axis probe basic sim, but i get a bit lost on a few things im uncertain about.are you on the qtpyvcp chect by chance?

matrix.to/#/#qtpyvcp:matrix.org

if you pop in for a minute and could answer a few questions i think i could get things up and running to begin testing.

Hope you can spare a few moments!

Chris

took some figuring but have it up and running, now to tinker on the vtk.  its oging to be epic!