Optical measuring experiment.

[Toolmaker51]

I'm with TM51 this is a superb implementation of DYI Optical measurement for <$100 ($65 camera plus misc). The cross hair is great on that ID/OD setting/measurement. I'd be interested in creating graticule's some how. Perhaps transparent PNG or better TIFF files...although based on pixels it would be something I might try. They might be created in ACAD as vectors then brought into Adobe Illustrator and ported out from there as PNG's or TIff's. I'm sure you could achieve at least a thou in resolution. I would need to try the MSI for the crosshair program and see how the Webcam driver works with it...I know that some Logitech camera software will allow green screen type overlays.

Bravo Olderdan!! Well Done! Thank you for sharing this great tool with us. Got my juices flowing!

Jon, this has my vote for TOW also.

PJ's intercepted my brain-wave postage to Jon, lol. But half is beyond my interpretation of terminology, the gist is clear though. I've spent countless hours measuring at optical comparators. Registering a part [set-up] is like machining, to check as many features possible according to a single datum.
I want one. I want one. I want one.