Hello all I am trying to run a 4th axis on a Haas mini mill and it is working fine if I wanted to run it in a traditional way, angular increments. However we are using this to preshape aspheric lenses for diamond turning. Currently all of our shaping equipment can only generate spheres so I plan to use the mill to program and aspheric curve and cut the blank while the 4th axis constantly rotates and simply running a 2D path. I am hoping there is a good way to do this within Gcode that I am unaware of or in Mcode if need me. It is much simpler and more accurate to generate these curves in a 2d path than trying to import step files with a complex surface on them.
Otherwise, I imagine Haas systems are not open enough but hooking up to a seperate controller entirely is a possibility if I can get the enough info about the wiring.
Otherwise, I imagine Haas systems are not open enough but hooking up to a seperate controller entirely is a possibility if I can get the enough info about the wiring.