Capture Coordinates or Plugin Architecture

[WillAdams (William Adams (Carbide 3D))]

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Duplicating physical items (story of 2020 Christmas break)

In Digitally Map a Surface in 3D [CNC Shark Duplicator] @JVarn was wondering (paraphrased) if a shapeoko could do the equivalent of something called “shark duplicator”, basically do a 3D scan and then a carve out of an object, and I couldn’t resist trying. Below is a short story with pictures on how this went. It all started with one of these: Which will act similar to the bitzero and bitsetter, and if you plan to buy one yourself, make sure you buy a “normally open” one that closes to gr…

I suspect if you want to interact programmatically you will need to use a 3rd party communication/control program (though I’d love to be wrong)

The Grbl folks have a page on options:

Using Grbl