Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] Re: OK, I've got a detent encoder... What now?

Was I was you, I'd use an edge-finder! They tolerate up to .050 of "oops,
too much" movement. I can get an edge finder to "repeat" within about
0.0002".
I'd really worry about bending something by jumpin' at it .01" at a time,
by the eyeball.

RayHex

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> From: Marcus & Eva <implmex@...>

> When I am jogging up to the edge of a job, I eyeball it at 0.01" per

click

> until I'm close to my gauge block size (I use a 3/4" dia pin in the

collet,

> and a 0.125 gauge block as a feeler gauge for setting up).
> Then I switch to 0.0001" per click and run the pin up until I can just

push

> the gauge block into the gap.
> For this operation I don't care a hoot what the graduations are, so long

as

> I have a coarse one for rough positioning, and a fine one for twiddling

in

> the last tenths.