If you have please explain to me how it works. Thanks.

 

1. Set up datums
2. Probe features
3. ????
4. Profit

 

yes... what would you be using it for

 

Yes, used several in college...pretty awesome. Are you hoping for some type of crash course here or something? I took a class called Micrology...started with your basic steel rule...haha, moved all the way up to digital multi axis measuring machines that have amazing accuracy. It worked laterally with a class called Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerancing. If you wanna learn man...school's where it's at.

 

we use ours for chassis measurements... frame twist, things like that
and sometimes we digitize parts for the cnc stuff

 

Its for a job with a racing company. does anyone have a video of one in operation?

 

We have many where I work. Are you going to be running a manual CMM or an automated CMM?

I don't have any videos...sorry. Have you tried google video and youtube?

 

I haven't really recieved all the details yet and I have looked on both google and youtube but there is nothing there.

 

i've used one in my dimensional metrology class, its pretty sweet

 

heres the setup we use

and a sample of what it can spit out

 

So this one above is all manual i take it...... are cmm's hard to operate? is there any software to them thats difficult to use? Sorry for all the questons i'm just so new and curios about it. Thanks for the input so far

 

its manual. we dont use automated cmm's as there is no point.
not really. if the software is set up right its just point and shoot.
we start up the program, take a measurement for the "0" of the program and go from there

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by wantboost &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">its manual. we dont use automated cmm's as there is no point.
not really. if the software is set up right its just point and shoot.
we start up the program, take a measurement for the "0" of the program and go from there</TD></TR></TABLE>

We use an automated CMM for measuring parts where there are LOTS of measurements. Since we are a repair facility and we use the CMM's to check our work before returning parts to service, we see the same part over and over. It's easy to program the CMM to just run through and measure coordinates on its own for various parts.

Oh yeah, I work at a jet engine repair facility. Big expensive parts and the FAA constantly breathing down your throat.

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by DaX &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">We use an automated CMM for measuring parts where there are LOTS of measurements. Since we are a repair facility and we use the CMM's to check our work before returning parts to service, we see the same part over and over. It's easy to program the CMM to just run through and measure coordinates on its own for various parts.

Oh yeah, I work at a jet engine repair facility. Big expensive parts and the FAA constantly breathing down your throat.</TD></TR></TABLE>

What resolution do you guys get? I am working on a few projects with ATK and the cmm they use to measure stuff with aargm doesn't seem to have really high resolution, at least down to what we are measuring.

 

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What resolution do you guys get? I am working on a few projects with ATK and the cmm they use to measure stuff with aargm doesn't seem to have really high resolution, at least down to what we are measuring. </TD></TR></TABLE>

We measure to 0.0001 inch.

 

look up a company called FARO.

I own shares Business is GREAT!

 

Why does it sound like this guy wants to be trained on how to use a cmm over honda-tech for a job.

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by 90blackcrx &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">Why does it sound like this guy wants to be trained on how to use a cmm over honda-tech for a job. </TD></TR></TABLE>

Haha, it does kind of sound like that...but if he is, he's going to be disappointed as to how little he'll learn without actually using one.

 

Did you perchance pad your resume when applying for the job by saying "I have experience with CMM's", and now they expect you to perform?

 

No its just that i've never even really seen one. The job that i'm at was looking at getting one but it didn't happen. Thanks for all the input though.