Re: Digitizing arm?

Dave,

After reading through something of a manual for this arm, it shows
that it needs to be calibrated or zeroed to some known position
before measuring. Assuming I can get communication or at least see
some sort of signal (not sure if it is RS-232), I don't know how to
tell the arm what zero is. I think it will be difficult to figure
out exactly what is being sent and received from the arm. I will try
a sniffer to see what I can find, but it will be some time before I
get to it, work/life getting in the way again. I will post some
results when I get back at it.

Thanks

Protman16

--- In CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO@yahoogroups.com, David Speck <Dave@...> wrote:
>
> Protman,
>
> TAL Technology has a free RS-232 sniffer program for download, as
well
> as a bunch of other neat SIO utilities avaioable at:
>
> http://www.taltech.com/freesoftware/fs_sw.htm
>
> They should do just what you need.
>
> HTH,
>
> Dave
> > BETTER OPTION!!!!!!!
> > A better way is to get your local high-end network geek that has
a
> > sniffer that has a serial port pass-through that can generate a
log
> > file. (this is basically what I was describing the 'poor mans'
version
> > of above
>