Hi, Has anyone considered the possibility of including load cells / strain gauges into the control loop of EMC2? What I am considering is an idea for making something which would require me to 'drill' a number of very small holes in precise positions through synthetic sapphire sheet. I could probably do it be making some form of sprung drill holder and using a rod or tube with diamond grinding paste to cut the hole but there would probably inevitably be some 'slop' in the sprung holder which would lead to inaccuracies in the finished holes (which would be maybe 0.1 - 0.2mm diameter). So, I was wondering if there might be a possibility to incorporate a load cell or strain gauges into the cutting head and provide some kind of feedback to EMC2 to regulate the downfeed on a 'peck drilling cycle' in a way similar to an EDM machine. If this hasn't been done already, I could envisage it being useful in other applications where it may be useful to optimise the cutting forces or provide some form of automated tool overload protection - such as if a drive belt fails?
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