Brennan Williams, a systems and technical support specialist at Tormach, walks through various probing routines on a Tormach PCNC 770. Probing routines like these are important for fast, accurate part and fixture setup, to help ensure your parts come out right every time.

We get a lot of questions into our technical department about how to get started with surface digitizing.    Digitizing, if you aren't familiar, is a technique that uses a touch probe to record a point cloud - basically a collection of XYZ coordinates that define a surface.