Digitizing Probe Compatible?

[Steve340 (Steven A Ward)]

I See older posts that the links don’t work, 6 years old btw. However is there a plug and play digitizing probe that works with these machines. And does carbide create v8 support such a tool.

They make such a tool for the shark machine.,
3D Digitizing Probe Kit | CNC Probe | NextWave CNC

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

Carbide Motion does not support probing beyond using a BitSetter or BitZero.

If you did use a 3D digitizer to get a file, then you could save it as an STL and import that.

Are the links in:

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…

not working?

[Steve340 (Steven A Ward)]

I’m not gonna lie. That REALLY bums me out. I just saw a video of a guy using the probe doing a guitar body, and it traced it so nice. Any plans in the future?