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Primo™ system: Before you begin
Microchip software licensing agreement
This product’s rmware has been developed by Renishaw with the use of the Microchip libraries, under the
following licensing terms:
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Intended use
The Primo system is a combined pay-as-you-go spindle probe, tool setter and radio transmission interface.
The system enables automated workpiece inspection, job set-up, broken tool detection, rapid tool
measurement on multi-tasking machines and machining centres and transmits the outputs to the CNC
machine controller.