Digitizing Probe for X Carve?

X-Carve
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After searching the forums I haven’t found any info other than for the Z-Probe…which is not what I’m looking for.

I’m a hobbyist woodworker/guitar builder wanting to get into CNC and looking at getting the XCarve for my shop. I have multiple MDF templates and trying to find a way that I could digitize them for carving later. After some internet searching I’ve found information on probing but nothing that seems to be compatible with the XCarve.

Is there a solution out there I’m not finding that could do this?

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Part of my job is to digitize parts so we can convert them into various formats for our engineers to work with in CAD. It takes someone with a CMM (coordinate measuring machine) or on the cheaper side a Roamer Arm and the software that allows reverse engineering. We don’t accept walk in customers. We charge a premium price around $100 dollars an hour when I do have to preform this task. My specific machine is a Brown and Sharpe Scirocco with capabilities of reading down to .00001". It takes the engineers several hours if not days to translate the digital image into a working CAD model.

You need to find a CMM supplier and see if they have a list of contacts that perform this service. It won’t be cheap.

3

There’s was a software based digitizing solution out there called 123d Catch, which is now Autodesk ReMake which looks interesting. It involves taking a bunch of photos of the object from multiple angles and the software stitched it all together to make a 3D model.

It can be found here: https://remake.autodesk.com/about

6

As I recall from my limited shark days, Next Wave Automation did offer a digitizing probe but it was expensive, and prone to breaking. But from what I remeber when it did work, it worked well.

7

Check out EstlCAM. It can do this.