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General Mach Discussion / Automatic touching
« on: July 27, 2007, 01:18:52 PM »
I was just reading the manual and came to the bit about touching.
It seems timeconsuming and hazardus at best so why not figure out something less prone to breaking a tool than a steel plate.
So I came up with the idea of modifying the digitizing probe.
The same ide but instead of using a shaft with a ball at the end there would be a flat surface cloase to the base. And obviously upside down. This has the benefit over a simple switch that it reacts with off center tools and is more accurate. I have a few other simple ideas for switches as well.
The idea is to mount the sensor at a fixed position on the table so that Mach can be asked move there to compensate for the tool all by itself.
I have not heard of anyone that does this so I thought it would be a nice feature. I would certanly want it.
However I don't even have a CNC mill or router yet to I can't test the idea.
It seems timeconsuming and hazardus at best so why not figure out something less prone to breaking a tool than a steel plate.
So I came up with the idea of modifying the digitizing probe.
The same ide but instead of using a shaft with a ball at the end there would be a flat surface cloase to the base. And obviously upside down. This has the benefit over a simple switch that it reacts with off center tools and is more accurate. I have a few other simple ideas for switches as well.
The idea is to mount the sensor at a fixed position on the table so that Mach can be asked move there to compensate for the tool all by itself.
I have not heard of anyone that does this so I thought it would be a nice feature. I would certanly want it.
However I don't even have a CNC mill or router yet to I can't test the idea.