Originally Posted by pete from TN  I see you have a nice digital height gauge already there or I would have said that I would probably have turned the digital caliper around backwards from where you have it to be able to set zero off the surface plate instead of the base plate. |
Actually, I wanted the tool height gage to reference from itself so I wouldn't have to walk over to my surface plate each time to reference a different size drill bit into a chuck. I can now keep the tool height gage on the workbench by the CNC.