Originally Posted by
epineh
As somebody with a fixed gantry design, I would rather a moving gantry as the fixed one really gets in the way when you are trying to clamp a job in, I am forever leaning over and around the gantry to make parts. I know that a moving gantry will still get in the way but nowhere near as much as the fixed version.
Russell.
True.
I often hold down work with wood screws and to get access the table needs to be jogged around a fair amount. On some designs there may be points that are never fully accessible.
It may also be true that people who cut their teeth on vertical mills see every machine as an oversize C-clamp. When all you have is a hammer everything looks like a nail.
Anyone who says "It only goes together one way" has no imagination.