Re: Digitizer probe progress

You can use it however you like. I have used it to digitize, I HAVE
produce a topological map, the reason it needs to work with a
sideways force is that this is what you get on steep sided objects
when digitizing.

With an accurate probe with a decent cylindrical or spherical tip it
can be used for edge detection. And turbocnc includes a G code for
centre finding, pop the probe in a hole and it bounces around and
then tells you where the middle is.

Graham

p.s. US patent 6553682 is a similar design.

> Yo Graham;
>
> Now you got me confused. Up till now I had thought the probe was

for some sort

> of, "hunt and peck", setup to make some kind of computerized

topological map of

> a workpiece prior to machining, or nachine duplication. So instead

it works

> like a CNC'd electronic wiggler?
>
> Bill
>