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Grifftek
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by Grifftek Thu Nov 08, 2018 1:47 pm
I am at the finishing stage of refitting an old Dyna 2400 retrofit with an Acorn control. I decided I wanted to add a tool touch probe and ordered one of those inexpensive aluminum and plastic probes from Amazon (
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07GT ... UTF8&psc=1 )
Being impatient, I decided to whip one up in Solidworks. I 3d printed the housing and machined the conductive part.
you can see more photos of the probe here:
When I configured the software, I set the Z reference point at the Z home position and did a touch off for 3 tools ( I still haven't installed the license file for pro so I was limited to 3 tools) and 2 of the readings were exactly the same and one was 0.0001 off. Not bad for a DIY solution
Regards
Bill Griffin
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by cnckeith Thu Nov 08, 2018 2:09 pm
looks fantastic..thanks for posting!
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martyscncgarage
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by martyscncgarage Fri Nov 09, 2018 8:34 am
Bill,
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Grifftek
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by Grifftek Fri Nov 09, 2018 12:49 pm
id be happy to share the stl or sldprt files if anyone wants them!
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martyscncgarage
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by martyscncgarage Fri Nov 09, 2018 1:00 pm
Grifftek wrote: ↑ Fri Nov 09, 2018 12:49 pm
id be happy to share the stl or sldprt files if anyone wants them!
Cool. See if you can attach them as files here Bill.
Marty
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Grifftek
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by Grifftek Wed Nov 28, 2018 3:52 pm
here are the files
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Probe.zip (4.39 MiB) Downloaded 139 times
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