> I have one of these. > Fowler 54-575-600 Electronic Edge Finder with Cylindrical Tip, 0.200" Stylus, > 1/2" Shank > > I use it with the Shumatech DRO to find edges or the center of something > round. The DRO-350 has a feature for that. Eventually I'll wire up a cable > that can be sensed by LinuxCNC to detect the edge automatically. > > It won't help me set up the tool height for a tool table. I have a bunch of > TT type tooling so eventually I'll need something for detecting where the > tool is. Probably some sort of spring loaded contact that is a precise > distance from where it's set.
Found a tool length presetter today. The Fowler you are referring to, happen to know if it also detect in z direction? There are plenty of cheap LED beep edge sensor, around 5µm claimed accuracy so I will try one of these. Would however prefer to also have z-axis edge detector to measure height of work piece compared to tool setter. Regards Nicklas Karlsson _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
