Can someone explain what is the difference between this and the other standard stylus module (puck)? I’ve attached a picture. I was told this one can hold longer probes?
Never heard of this type of puck being able to told long probes. My biggest & longest probes are attached to the standard (M3 thread) pucks. The one on the pic I use this type of puck for star probes because you can square the star with this setup.
I would not be inclined to use this for long probes due to lack of rigidity, we have one on both of our machines as 3x20 's but rarely used, I would guess that being rotatable means you can rotate in the chuck if needed, for example if you had a probe from a knuckle requiring positioning at a certain angle
Hexagon confusing nonsense is on display again. Rotatable likely means you can rotate to square a star probe & tighten the knurled nut to lock the whole thing in place. That is what I did when building star probe setups. Made them square to the machine's x or y axes & tightened the nut to hold them in place.
I see this one doesn’t come up in the probe description drop down either. Does it matter if I just build my probe using this puck physically but in PC-DMIS just build it with the standard one?
Emdee, we do use an 8 x 225 comprised of a puck/extension 150mm long (carbon fibre) and an 8mm x 75mm carbon fibre stylus and have reasonable results with this
