This type of work screams rotary 4th axis.
I've used a legacy before for turning rope. It works just fine, but the machine is expensive, and literally takes 15-30 times as much labor as a CNC (1 minute for the CNC, 15-30 minutes manually). Programming with a CNC is ridiculously easy as well. In fact, the G-code program for turning rope is so short that you can use the trial version of Mach 3 to run it. Ha!! |