Worked as a machinist for 18 years, then moved into quality12 years ago, where I was introduced to the wonderful world of CMM's.Making a long story short, I am now flailing away on a Browne & Sharpe Global using 2009MR1, with a LEVEL 1 class under my belt.I recently tried to register for the LEVEL 2 class, only to be told that I WILL NOT BE ALLOWED TO REGISTER WITHOUT THE LATEST VERSION OF SOFTWARE, which has my employer looking at other software options.Curious if anyone else has had this terrific experience when if comes to supported (or unsupported) software.
We've been looking to spend our (free with the purchase of a new machine) training coupons on something. Level 1 was a snooze after having only the minimum of 'training' from our current CMM operator. Sounds like we should skip direct to level 3 or maybe GD&T. I wouldn't bother at all except the training is already paid for.
...interesting, b&s didn't give a hoot what version software we were on for Level 1. I didn't find the 20xx I trained on prohibitively different than v4.0. I didn't miss anything going back to v4 until we got around to installing 2010. (I did miss all the crashes, once we had 2010 running *g*) Almost sounds like a ploy to sell more software.
I would suggest either the advanced class (3rd) or the GDT class. Much can be learned about the powers of the dark side by attending the GDT class. Keep in mind it is how to use GDt within PC-DMIS, it is not a class on GDT standards or practices.
Thanks James.I certainly used the wrong word with "flail".But I have to have enough humility to assume I can use any type of training, or get something out of any class offered (or not offerred at this point by Hexagon).I became stuck with best fit alignments when trying to use the application with respect to a composite tolerance.I will certainly approach my employer with some of the information you have passed along to me.I appreciate the info.
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We've been looking to spend our (free with the purchase of a new machine) training coupons on something. Level 1 was a snooze after having only the minimum of 'training' from our current CMM operator. Sounds like we should skip direct to level 3 or maybe GD&T. I wouldn't bother at all except the training is already paid for.
...interesting, b&s didn't give a hoot what version software we were on for Level 1. I didn't find the 20xx I trained on prohibitively different than v4.0. I didn't miss anything going back to v4 until we got around to installing 2010. (I did miss all the crashes, once we had 2010 running *g*) Almost sounds like a ploy to sell more software.
I would suggest either the advanced class (3rd) or the GDT class. Much can be learned about the powers of the dark side by attending the GDT class. Keep in mind it is how to use GDt within PC-DMIS, it is not a class on GDT standards or practices.
Thanks James.I certainly used the wrong word with "flail".But I have to have enough humility to assume I can use any type of training, or get something out of any class offered (or not offerred at this point by Hexagon).I became stuck with best fit alignments when trying to use the application with respect to a composite tolerance.I will certainly approach my employer with some of the information you have passed along to me.I appreciate the info.
You are welcome. I would highly recommend coconut sweater cow, he is so sexy in the high heel jack boots that he has for the naughty boys.
