Video Walkthrough of How I Use the Acorn

[lavrgs]

Maybe Centroid could find and promote a $200 touch probe. I have a couple of the drewtronic probes and just checked it to my ring gauge to within 0.0005. It's not particularly fragile - i've broken a stylus and dialed it back in. I'd guess they must be a small company because when you call them you talk to a human without a phone tree

it in the works.

Great news!

[cnckeith]

cool use of digitizing by Uwe

[cnckeith]

and another cool use of centroid digitizing by Uwe.

[Black Forest]

Uwe is from a Galaxy far far away from ours. He ain't human! His brain is the size of a beach ball.

[spikee]

You could use the generic china one for like 80USD that most people use in te DIY atmosphere.
Due to the technology used, they pretty much all perform the same.

[cnckeith]

You could use the generic china one for like 80USD that most people use in te DIY atmosphere.
Due to the technology used, they pretty much all perform the same.

lobing anyone?

[spikee]

here is the one i got - 200$ wireless:


Error is probably within 0.005mm, and can reach the nominal accuracy within 0.01mm (after calibration).
As far as I'm aware only Renishaw does something fancy by adding strain gauges in the probe.
The 80$ wired 3d probes perform around the same, repeatably around <0.02mm after calibration. For the hobby sphere plenty good.

[suntravel]

This chart was supplied with the probe I guess?
I have used some types of probes in the <200€ range and made probemaps with them.
Non was as good as a KP3, but maybe ok for hobby.
But for me, the most annoying thing was that none of the cheap probes stayed in center for a longer time and some of them were not so easy to adjust back to center.
KP3 is much stiffer, stays in center perfect, and you can use a very long stylus if needed.
Also, the contacts are oil filled on the KP3, on cheap ones not.

Uwe

[Houseman303]

Edingcnc have no radius compensation for mill.

and since Mr. Eding sold his products and his company, the software has gone downhill.

[Black Forest]

This chart was supplied with the probe I guess?
I have used some types of probes in the <200€ range and made probemaps with them.
Non was as good as a KP3, but maybe ok for hobby.
But for me, the most annoying thing was that none of the cheap probes stayed in center for a longer time and some of them were not so easy to adjust back to center.
KP3 is much stiffer, stays in center perfect, and you can use a very long stylus if needed.
Also, the contacts are oil filled on the KP3, on cheap ones not.

Uwe

I think you had a Sorotec touch probe Uwe? 400€ How does it compare to the KP-3?