Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] RE: Lighted edge finder

In a message dated 10/09/2000 9:55:46 PM Hawaiian Standard Time,
Ian@... writes:

<< Assuming you can then hit a 'home' button or something, the machine would
be
set up without all the hassle of adding or subtracting half diameters
or wondering why the motor has gone quiet after a sonalert has echoed around
your ear-muffs! ;o)

Ian
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Thinking about it, Ian's sugestion could be taken other way, just mount the
unit on a bracket on the side of the mill head. It could be offset a known
distance from the spindle for a quick visual alignment of a center point or
it could be used to re-verify a fixed home point. Kinda like the "laser
across the room" trick but set up to help X and Y rather than Z.

Peter
THRD, Inc.