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(a)

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Z
A
A
3,600
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C' Y
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4,100
4,100

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3,700 WP CS

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C'
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4,100
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Figure 4-14 Design results of quinaxial controlled milling machines (courtesy of Saljé).

2. When the arbitrary exchangeable degree of freedom is three in the
traveling function, there are 24 obtainable structural configurations.
In due course, the possible variants to use, as already shown in
Fig. 4-11, can be chosen to a various extent under certain constraints, e.g.,
arrangement and location of the guideway in relation to both the
work traveling and the machining space.
Following these earlier works, Ratchev and Gindy [11] conducted a
research into the rationalization of the choice process of the preferable
modular- configured machine tool. The process commences from the spec-
ifications of machining requirements for a set of the components,