How Does a CNC Touch Probe Work?

The combination use of a Touch Probe and Tool Setter when easily integrated into your CNC control processes and software can become instrumental in making massive improvements your resultant total customer satisfaction. Fully automated use of these tools will also make your machine shop huge financial savings with productivity, scrap and yield improvements over conventional methods. Touch probes, or sometimes known as triggering touch probes or touch-trigger probes. They work by touch parts of stock material, component or tool to collect a number of required data points. The machine operator can use a probe like this to precisely determine the position of components or stock materials. This precision information can then be used to update machine settings, offsets and position data in your CNC control software or CAM model. Touch probes are often used on milling machines in conjunction with an automatic tool change carousel system, but can also be used by manual exchanging a cutting tool for the probe. Touch Probes are often used in conjunction with a CNC Milling Tool Height Setter.