There are a lot of manual CMMs out there... if you could lock your Z axis and then manually push the X-Y axis around (with a touch probe, of course) you have basically the same thing. The software should just sit there are save XYZ points to a file.
Unfortunately, I can't answer the question of collecting coordinates.
You could bring that XYZ text file into any CAD software (I use Rhino) and make a 2D profile with very little trouble. |