Hi George
I do not have an answer for this one, but I am interested in the concept of using a mill to digitize with, too. Where do you get info from for this?
Just guessing about how this would be work, I would assume that a person would have to write a cnc program to move the machine around a grid of coordinates. The program would also include a slow jog Z movement to move the probe at each location, with some sort of interconnect from the probe output to the cnc to stop the Z axis as soon as a signal is detected. At that moment the three coordinates would be recorded. Then the Z axis would retract, and the program would run to the next XY.
This would require a special cnc function, since most cnc's do not have a method of outputting position information. A PC based controller would likely be far more adaptable to this kind of process, in fact I know I could do it with the CamsoftCorp Pc-based cnc, except I have my installation done only on a lathe at present.
I'd like to hear input from some guys who are familiar with this kind of process. Come on, speak up, you know who you are