Sebastian the Mach yahoo forum has some info sprinkled through several days of threads. I was to beta test last week, but got sick with strepp throat. Went to the shop sick.........shouldn't have. Broke my probe. I was just setting up to start the first test of the new plugin and due to several things I simply did not pay attention. Like I said.........I shouldn't have been there.
I think there will be a fee for this when it is all said and done. It is just now in it's first stage of development but I can tell you a little about it. The process is what Art calls a "wiggler" path. You give the system the parameters to work in and it basically searches for contact till the switch is made. Once that happens the probe will wiggle back and forth and up and down by only a few .0000 at a time without retracting from the surface. The goal is to be able to probe 30,000 points per hr which is almost 100 times faster than I can do currently with the up and down method. Now admittedly some of my parts require a deep z move and this will eliminate that wasted motion.
I'm going to try to get my probe fixed by this weekend and will give an update then.
Mike
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