Re: Renishaw, digitizers

>The amount of discussion that has gone on about this sensor up to
>now seems to me to be totally out of proportion to the job. One gets
>the distinct feeling that people want to make jobs like this as
>complicated as possible just so they can use their fancy
>machines ;O) I, on the other hand, tend to work mainly
>with machines and equipment firmly rooted in the 18th and 19th
>century when there weren't even electric motors - and, as I am
>sometimes called upon to demonstrate, I can turn small parts more
>accurately on a lathe made from 3 nails than on an expensive fancy
>job. So, if I can make accurate depressions on a brass disk by
>clouting it with a hammer, I will tend to do that rather than spend
>a couple of days trying to figure out how to do it a more
>complicated but 'modern' way!!