Re: digitizer arm?

We discussed this recently on the Master 5 forum, if more inputs were
added to Mach2 then it seems quite possible to handle the software
side of a digitiser arm. I've used Mach2 along with 3DS Max and my
CNC Toolkit to get encoder output positions into Max as coordinates,
but currently Mach2 can only use 3 encoders.

Regards,
Rab
http://www.rainnea.com/cnc.htm


--- In CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO@yahoogroups.com, "the_punisher_454"
<punisher454@h...> wrote:

> --- In CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO@yahoogroups.com, "Bill Kichman"
> <billkichman@c...> wrote:
> > Holy cats, I contacted a sales rep, who called me back a short
> while ago,
> > these things are $3500 list price!
> > For a few cheap rotary encoders, simple framework, glue

electronics

> and
> > interface software, that sure is steep!
> > I guess if they were sold like PC game joysticks, they'd be
> cheaper...
>
> Thats EXACTLY what I was thinking. And thats about the least
> expensive model. The realy fancy laser stuff can run a few hundred
> thousand bucks!
>
> The hardware looks to be VERY simple to work out, its just the
> interface to the software that would give me trouble. I can do some
> AVR programming and could even generate a 3d co-ordiante all in the
> microcontroller, but geting it from there into 3dsMax is what I not
> sure about.
> I'd be happy to just generate one point at a time and a build a
> polymesh that way. I'm building 3d game models mostly and dont need
> or want a gazillion Verticies, just whats needed.