Tor­mach CNC Scan­ner is now avail­able for sale on our web­site.

CNC Scan­ner is a 2D dimen­sional scan­ner for the PCNC or other Mach 3 con­trolled CNC mill. It makes high res­o­lu­tion com­pos­ite images by auto­mat­i­cally stitch­ing together an array of snap­shots taken with a USB micro­scope mounted in the spin­dle of the mill. The length scale of these com­pos­ite images is cal­i­brated to the motion of the mill, so you can get very accu­rate mea­sure­ments that might not have been pos­si­ble with con­ven­tional gauge tools. It includes Tor­mach CNC Scan CAD, which is the analy­sis soft­ware that allows you to mea­sure and draw with some basic Auto­CAD style com­mands to make .dxf files for reverse engineering.

We ran a beta test pro­gram with this last fall and were really excited about some of the appli­ca­tions that the testers came up with. We put together a small white paper with appli­ca­tion exam­ples and an engi­neer­ing dis­cus­sion. You can read it here.