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General Mach Discussion / Re: Digitizing Point Cloud Or "Bed of Nails" type

« on: December 02, 2017, 02:19:42 PM »

That seemed to work!!!!
Now after running it once I'm unable to get a new probing routine program to load over into Mach3.
Any thoughts on how I can fix that?

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Digitizing Point Cloud Or "Bed of Nails" type

« on: December 01, 2017, 11:09:52 PM »

Many thanks, Gerry!  Will work on this and see what we come up with.  I'm very excited as have been looking for this for several years now.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Digitizing Point Cloud Or "Bed of Nails" type

« on: December 01, 2017, 04:02:01 PM »

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kAHTxzzz91A

Mach3 probing routine with its wasted motion.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Digitizing Point Cloud Or "Bed of Nails" type

« on: December 01, 2017, 03:57:15 PM »

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XjFp0wgvox0

An example

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Digitizing Point Cloud Or "Bed of Nails" type

« on: December 01, 2017, 03:41:08 PM »

The next higher surface would trip the probe immediately when contacting.  The the X axis would raise a preset amount and then attempt to move laterally again. This would repeat until X moved a preset amount without tripping the probe and then the scenario repeats. 

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General Mach Discussion / Digitizing Point Cloud Or "Bed of Nails" type

« on: December 01, 2017, 12:05:56 PM »

Mach3 has the digitizing plugin which will probe a grid and create a point cloud file as many of you probably know.
I'm wondering if there is a similar digitizing routine "out there" that does the same except after tripping the probe it will simply raise a few thou and then move to the next point on the grid and repeat the process.
This is opposed to returning to Z0 after each hit which wastes a lot of time especially if the item being probed has a lot of depth.
Would anyone know where I might find such a digitizing plugin? 
I think that ShotBot has it but it's proprietary. 

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Digitizing in Mach3

« on: December 01, 2017, 11:52:43 AM »

Got that fixed now.  Thanks for your help!

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Digitizing in Mach3

« on: November 30, 2017, 04:50:38 AM »

I downloaded a new copy of Mach3 but I'm still seeing the old menu version of digitizing.  Would that be because I copied my mill.xml file over?  I noticed that the xml file has parameters in it that show up in the menu version and wondering if that is why it still shows in the menu.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Moving Mach3 to Windows 7 Pro Issues--Need Help

« on: November 29, 2017, 09:17:55 PM »

Thanks for the insight!  Very much appreciated.
What is an ESS?

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Moving Mach3 to Windows 7 Pro Issues--Need Help

« on: November 29, 2017, 08:28:37 PM »

I'm trying to understand the recommendation of a non integrated video card for Mach3.  That role does the video card have in controlling the CNC? 
Thanks