"Coordinates for the CNC Lathe" provides an overview of the coordinates used to program cutting operations on CNC lathes or turning centers. It introduces the systems of both Cartesian and polar ...

Robot Axes and Pathways provides an overview of the ways industrial robots move. The axes of the Cartesian coordinate system are used to describe robot movement. Robots may travel along linear axes or ...

There’s a certain class of parts that just can’t be made on a standard 3-axis mill, nor with a 3D printer or a lathe. These parts — weird screws, camshafts, strange gears, or simply a shaft with a ...

For a half-century, the image of the large, six-axis articulated robot welding car and truck bodies has become fixed in the popular imagination. Robots are used in sectors as diverse as healthcare, ...

A Matlab histogram shows a distribution of data grouped into regular intervals called bins. Matlab has predefined functions for creating histograms in Cartesian or polar coordinate systems. After ...