
Although it’s still true to say that you can’t make a silk purse out of a pig’s ear, Dr Neil Calder discovers it’s now at least possible to make a good CNC machine tool significantly more accurate.
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Nothing in life is ever quite what it seems, and similarly no machine tool axis is ever perfectly straight or aligned. Once you add in the effects of rotational axes in 5-axis systems, and the long cantilevered axes found...