I hadn't realised this confusion on my part would open up such a can of worms.
At peril of ruining my parts by machining them 90 degrees off I have hereby decided
to introduce a much less ambiguous naming convention.
The long axis will hence forth be called John (as in 'long'...get it?).
I decided against calling the Y axis Jesus (goes across) on the grounds it might offend and lose me some friends, so I decided upon Paul.
This results in what was my Z axis is now known as Ringo and my CNC rotary table
(should ever I be blessed to live to see it built) will be called George.
Regrettably this does limit me to building a 4 axis machine as
A) I can't remember the name of the original drummer who left and...
B) I couldn't tell you what a 5th axis might be even if one came and danced on my lap. |