Most CNC machine controls today have the capacity to compensate the volumetric errors, for example on a typical three axes machine it is possible to compensate, three linear errors (or pitch error), six straightness errors (or cross errors or sag errors) and three squareness errors. The machine accuracy can be improved by measuring all these errors and then to compensate these errors, providing that the machine is repeatable. The key is how to measure all these errors accurately and quickly. There are many methods to measure these errors. However, all of these methods are very complex and the cost is normally prohibitive for smaller companies. This is one of the major reasons these errors are not compensated. The other reason is time, with the cost of machine time most companies are not willing to invest the 16 to 20 hours required to measure all these errors.

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