Optical registration on ShopBot

[John Murray]

Is there any way to modify a ShopBot PRS Alpha for Optical Registration.
We print and laminate in-house. And sometimes we need to rout to shape, but have to manually register the mounted material prior to routing. It can be tedious and inaccurate.

Is there a solution with ShopBot and V-Carve?

[Brady Watson]

John,
Not to my knowledge using SB3. You could however keep the SB hardware and change the controller to WinCNC and purchase their OptiScout plugin.

RE: https://www.wincnc.com/mapp_vision.php

-B

[John Murray]

Thank you Brady.

[8Ball]

Would a cross-hair laser not work? They can be mounted to any machine.

[coryatjohn]

Would a cross-hair laser not work? They can be mounted to any machine.

I would think that anything laser would be too coarse for the OP's requirements.

[Rocco.G]

Shopbot has a laser pointer in thier shop. Laser Pointer
#006326
$ 150.00 USD

IDK about the software mentioned but wouldn't you have to let the machine scan the full material to be routed to find the registration points? I have an inkling of what the OP wants to do and I'd think that manually moving to your marks might be the easiest solution - though I could be way off.