I may have contributed to his departure,but have no regrets about honestly expressing my lack of interest in his gadget.One thread would have been sufficient and if you check his dedicated sub forum at CNCzone,which I did after seeing the same thread here and there,you will see almost no replies to any of the posts that spread over six pages.It is a minority interest topic and I don't know if he was posting so much to convince his wife that the considerable sum he must have spent was justified or if he is involved in selling the hardware.

There are other ways of digitising 2D objects and there is software to take the drudgery out of a lot of it.I will say that if somebody wants to start a thread about building your own 3D digitiser I will be very interested indeed.Moving a digitising puck and clicking when the cross hairs align with a feature isn't exactly cutting edge stuff these days and once entered into a CAD system it becomes the stuff we all use with machines.

Thanks go out to Lee for filling out the picture and for maintaining his patience during the saga.