Renishaw is offering a free 30 day trial of its latest version of Productivity+, a powerful software package that simplifies the generation of touch probe routines for CNC machine tools.

Free 30 day trial for new Renishaw touch probe software Renishaw is offering a free 30 day trial of its latest version of Productivity+, a powerful software package that simplifies the generation of touch probe routines for CNC machine tools.

Productivity+ is available as a plug-in for GibbsCAM and as a CAM-independent, stand-alone package named Active Editor.

Both options allow users to program and integrate touch probe routines for job set-up, process control, inspection, tool setting and tool breakage detection at the same time as toolpath generation.

The free 30 day no-obligation trial is available for both options of Productivity+.

The latest version of Productivity+, version 1.03, gives additional functionality including XY co-ordinate rotation, 4th axis levelling and three new post-processors for leading controllers.

Co-ordinate rotation in the XY plane (controller dependent) If a part is not aligned to the machine’s axes, this new functionality will compensate for the error and feed the new data back into the CNC control to ensure co-ordinates are correct.

Users will see a reduction in part set-up times or fixturing costs.

4th axis levelling Version 1.03 allows users to locate parts on a 4th axis fixture and use the touch probe to automatically find its position.

The software automatically update

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