NC4 Tool Setter and Detector for Machining Centers

Description

The Renishaw NC4 allows fast, non-contact tool setting and tool breakage detection on a variety of machining centers. This unit is available as fixed or separate system variants, the NC4 incorporates the unique MicroHole™ protection system and the innovative failsafe PassiveSeal™, maintaining IPX8 environmental protection and offers a fixed range from F95 to F230 compact series, offering new performance standards in small packages, using the same transmitter and receiver units as the NC4 separate and modular fixed systems. With all NC4 systems, precision optics are supplied as standard. These enable the compact series to achieve un-surpassed performance in a unit particularly suited to small machines and machines where space is at a premium. NC4 offers the following features…

  • Compact design is ideal for many machine types and sizes
  • Fast, robust and repeatable
  • Available as both fixed and separate systems
  • Precise tool length and tool diameter measurement
  • Only 1 M-code required
  • Measures and detects tools of Ø0.03mm or larger (dependent on separation and mounting)