Originally Posted by
ihavenofish
mazak and brother use it too.
its a very good layout, but more difficult and expensive to implement than the basic C machines.
you can buy used brother TC321/323/324 machine for like $1500 if you want a small but high performance frame like this. they have a rotating pallet table and a crazy fast 10/14 tool atc with a bt30 spindle. even if you treat the machine as "castings" and throw away every other part, you're going to be better off by far than trying to duplicate this on your own at a hobby level, unless you make it very small and weak.
of course thats no fun is it? :P