I saw this question asked, but I never saw an answer. From what I have seen it looks like the ABILITY is there, but my understanding of HOW TO is a little weak.
In my vision of a perfect world (yes, dreaming, again), it would be nice to issue a command, or run a routing where I could give it, starting xyz and ending XYZ (for a 3 dimension rectangular solid) and a 'spacing' unit (.01 or .1 or 1, or whatever depending on the units and a probe would start at one corner and probe to the other scanning the rectangular area. It might need a probe tool diameter and a 'safe space' (how far above the upper Z to go to ensure clearance when going to the next point. What I would like for output is something that is a point cloud, either as just points (x,y,z) or in another format that might be used in the image-to-gcode program that is with EMC2. ref: http://www.linuxcnc.org/docs/2.1/html/gui/image-to-gcode/index.html This would allow 'copying parts' and the such. Yes, I expect it could/would be slow, but getting the job done is more important than time. Could someone point me down the right path? I would love to add the docs of 'how to' to the EMC wiki if I can get it to work! ... Jack ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
