Originally Posted by mxtras  I guess the way I look at it is this: The energy and effort spent to make such a system automatically compensate or correct for mechanical deficiencies would likely be better spent straightening out the mechanical deficiencies.
Scott |
After thinking it over you are probably right it might not be worth the effort to make a system that automatically compensates for one machine . Would it be worth it however if it was standard input on a control such as Mach? It just seems like after it was built and working, Users could put down a couple of magnetic mounts with a wire stretched between the mounts . Then the machine in Mach could be slowly jogged from one end to the other. Mach would know the linear distance to the error and then would remember to compenstate for the error later on.