Quoth Ralph Stirling..... >Are you planning on using crosshairs and "eyeballing" to determine >your cutter length/diameter,
Ummm... I was planning on using it by eye, with Camview for Linuxcnc (http://psha.org.ru/b/camview-emc.html - which generates a tab in Axis with the camera image + overlays) to edge find (instead of removing current tool, change collett in holder, insert edge finder, find edges, remove edge finder, reinstall original collett and tool; not a hugely onerous task but still a bit of a PITA if a cheapy webcam can do the job). Camview already overlays cross hairs and circles or lines so if the head mounted camera can produce a usable image of the workpiece when I've got a tool in the spindle..... 'all' I then have to tackle is mounting it in line with Z on the head. -- Regards, Russell -------------------------------------------------------------------- | Russell Brown | MAIL: russ...@lls.com PHONE: 01780 471800 | | Lady Lodge Systems | WWW Work: http://www.lls.com | | Peterborough, England | WWW Play: http://www.ruffle.me.uk | -------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ November Webinars for C, C++, Fortran Developers Accelerate application performance with scalable programming models. Explore techniques for threading, error checking, porting, and tuning. Get the most from the latest Intel processors and coprocessors. See abstracts and register http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=60136231&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
