Paralle Kinetincs Formular

[Jonathon]

Hi Guys,
It's been a while since I visited CNC-Zone, Its definatlye grown.
Ok I have been playing with Mach3 formular trying to get a http://hektor.ch/ style Two motor hanging painter to work. I thought I had the formular right but it doesn't seem to work, Has anyone been able to get somthing similar to work in Mach3 ?

Where:
x = xaxis
y = yaxis
A as motor 1 (top left)
B as motor 2 (top right)
500 = distance between motors horizotaly
f(a) = sqrt ((x*x) + (y*y))
f(b) = sqrt (((500 - x) * (500 - x))+(y*y))

Should this work?
Cheers,
Jono

[ger21]

I don't think it's capable of doing that, but not sure. Ask Art on the yahoo group.

[CNCAddict]

Art discussed this before. It's possible to use a PKM machine and Gcode with Mach 3. But the jogging buttons will not feed through the formulas. So the machine will jog each motor independently He said he would work on this but now that he's retiring in a month, it doesn't seem likely it'll see the light of day.

[Jonathon]

Just bumping this thread as I'm keen to get this project going again, any idea of some software I could use for this other than the mach?
Cheers