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Optical tracer
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An optical tracer[1] is an X-Y tooling machine which utilises a photoeye to track toolpaths printed on a full-scale drawing and move a tool head accordingly. No Z-axis or cut commands can be read from the drawing, so an operator was still required to tell the machine, when and how deep it should cut.
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It has been made largely obsolete by CNC systems.
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