CNC machine is the one of the major reasons for industrial advancement in recent decades for its ability of producing accurate parts.The most commen CNC machines are of 3-axis Cracker Dish and adopted widely in the industrial sector.However, for producing more complicated parts 5-axis CNC machines are required.
Although the introduction of the 5-axis machine came after the 3-axis CNC machine has established itself and many manufacturers did not make the move toward the newer model and its high pricing compared to the 3-axis model did not help either.In this time the development of a fixture or a platform to help transfer the 3-axis to a 5-axis to some degree.This paper discusses the concept of a programmable fixture that gives 3-axis CNC machine the Cleaners freedom to act in similar manner as the 5-axis.
The paper describes the mechanism with some initial results of the testing.Result showed that the platform moves in translation manner with an average error of 5.58 % and 7.
303% average error for rotation movement.