[Emc-users] Simple touch probe
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. 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. I would appreciate any hints, where should I look for something suitable or maybe there is some source of information that describes, how to make one. The size and beauty of the probe itself does not really matter, keeping the budget as low as possible is higher priority. Thanks in advance! -- Viesturs If you can't fix it, you don't own it. http://www.ifixit.com/Manifesto -- 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
Re: [Emc-users] Simple touch probe
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
Re: [Emc-users] Simple touch probe
On 10 April 2013 19:57, Viesturs Lācis viesturs.la...@gmail.com wrote: 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. http://www.homanndesigns.com/store/index.php?main_page=product_infoproducts_id=217 Is the cheapest I know of. (unless you get lucky on eBay) -- atp If you can't fix it, you don't own it. http://www.ifixit.com/Manifesto -- 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
