On 4/10/2013 2:57 PM, Viesturs Lācis wrote: > Hello! > > I am looking for a simple and cheap touch probe so that I can fix it near > spindle and find material surface in all 3 directions - X, Y and Z.
Hitting Google with "diy touch probe" turned up a number of candidates. You could start with http://fadedbits.com/2011/02/touchprobe/ and http://gtocs.blogspot.com/2012/04/garys-diy-cnc-touch-probe.html. Just about every DIY'er reports using his/her probe with EMC2 or LinuxCNC. > > I think that probing repeatability of 0,01 mm will be sufficient for my > needs, which does not seem like very high precision for touch probes. That seems doable if the above sites are telling the truth. Regards, Kent ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Precog is a next-generation analytics platform capable of advanced analytics on semi-structured data. The platform includes APIs for building apps and a phenomenal toolset for data science. Developers can use our toolset for easy data analysis & visualization. Get a free account! http://www2.precog.com/precogplatform/slashdotnewsletter _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
