Possibility of 5 axis??

[calkai1]

Hi,
Is there any expert designing low-cost 5 axis cnc wood routers??
Is it possible to use the combination as below to build one?

Rhino 3d for CAD
http://www.rhino3d.com/

BobCAD-CAm
http://bobcad.com/index_products.php
I am quite confused the feature, ""4th axis indexing"""???
What does it mean???
or
Mastercam
but it is wxpwnsive, could you suggest me one??

WinCNC as the controller
http://www.cnccontroller.com/

with servos, drivers, pullys, ans so on!!

What could be the critical one?? software or hardware??

Thanks in advance!!

Tom

[turmite]

Try this link here.

http://www.rainnea.com/cnc.htm

He sometimes frequents the Zone here and may see this. He also has a yahoo forum so that would also be a good place to look.

CNC_Toolkit is the yahoo group name. There is a fellow there who is about to make a bolt on 5 axis head available for less that $500 US, if I read the post right. His handle is ballendo.

Mike

[vacpress]

the rotary tables rainea uses, are amazingly, available for $18(!) from some ponline site.. surpluscenter.com i think...

m sure they took some modification to be usefull for CNC, but they look nice on his machine!

[DDM]

Wow, I think I'm just going to stick with 4 axis right now. That sure is a neat setup. How hard is it to slave one of the servo drives like they have for the y axis on that machine?