Home made DRO for axis positions

That’s incredible! Great work! Once I get a machine I’ll have to make one of these!

I get the desire to have X Y and Z and even A on a DRO, but I can’t fathom how to make good logic of the A and B axis readouts combined.

It seems like a B axis move would kind of ruin the knowledge of the positions of the other axis?
Maybe I’m not thinking right…

–Matthew Schroeder

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That’s the kinematic calculations. The post(at least in NX) knows the distance from center of B axis to center of A axis then it just some highschool maths to work out the rest.
The DRO I made is reading the values from the machine itself.
Cheers
TP

Got the RPI camera up and running, streaming the work area now. The DRO is now mounted on a small tripod so it can be positioned or raised/lowered as needed. It’s become quite the exercise in many aspects. :sweat_smile:

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This looks awesome. I’m getting my machine prob next week should be here!

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You’re really going to enjoy it. It’s a great machine.
TP