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How a Touch Probe for Machine Tools works

Wednesday, August 27th, 2008

The system utilizes the machine to move the probe along a programmed path. Once the stylus makes contact with the part/tool a signal is generated and is transmitted to the machine’s CNC. This is done by means of a transmission system (wireless or hardwired). The CNC is then able to store the relevant axes positions and elaborate the part geometry by means of dedicated probing software.

A typical probing application lay-out is sketched here below:

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Touch Probes for Tool Check

Thursday, August 24th, 2006

A90 family probes is the low cost solution for tool breakage detection and inspection, when there is no need to measure the tool with very high accuracy.

There are basically three models of A90 probes to meet the different applicationneeds continue on reading about Touch Probes for Tool Check