# Adding a Rotary Axis **URL:** \ **Category:** X-Carve\ **Created:** [July 6, 2020, 8:30am UTC](https://community.inventables.com/t/adding-a-rotary-axis/95252 "2020-07-06T08:30:08Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![ChrisSergent1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a9a28c/32.png) [@ChrisSergent1](https://community.inventables.com/u/ChrisSergent1)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2020, 8:30am UTC](https://community.inventables.com/t/adding-a-rotary-axis/95252/1 "2020-07-06T08:30:09Z")
I am a NooB with the X carve, I have only had it for a short time. But it has always been my intention to add a rotary axis to it. I have read a few post here and almost all say that it can’t be done with the stock X controller, which confuses me a bit (lot). Wouldn’t it simply be a matter of unplugging the Y axis and plugging the rotary axis in it’s place? So you would have a 2 axis machine (X and Z) with a rotary axis? I want a rotary axis, but I don’t want to spend lots on getting another controller to do it. Aspire has a wrapping tool built in, does it output the code to the Y axis as an A axis output? I have had a look at @ErikJenkins post on adding a rotary axis, but it seems a hard (and expensive) way of doing it. ---
**Author:** ![MartinW.Mcclary](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex009/user_avatar/community.inventables.com/martinw.mcclary/32/63385_2.png) [@MartinW.Mcclary](https://community.inventables.com/u/MartinW.Mcclary)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2020, 11:36am UTC](https://community.inventables.com/t/adding-a-rotary-axis/95252/2 "2020-07-06T11:36:11Z")
I have thought about this off and on too. I would agree that you’d have to set it up under the z axis, parallel to the Y axis and use the X axis connector to run the motor. It might be more difficult to actually create the Gcode unless you are writing it by hand. I don’t know if there are 4 axis Grbl controllers. I do know that Mach3 can control an A axis.