Hello everyone. I would like to get some personal opinions from people who have used the Renishaw PH10M and the Hexagon HH-AS-T2.5 heads on their CMMs. We are in the process of purchasing a additional CMM. We currently have a CMM and are running a PH10M probe head on it along with a MicroVu with a Renishaw probe. I would like to hear from some of your thoughts on preference coming from hexagon these days?
From he looks of it, it appears to be a 2.5°version of the TeasstarM
Now whilst I agree with everyone else in terms of transferring programs I'd just like to mention the following plus points WRT to the Hexagon heads...
1) You've obviously got a smaller angular increment so you can access features easier without risking shanking, potentially enabling to to measure a greater amount of a feature for more accurate results
2) The ability to index to -ve A angles - I found this particularly useful when working a a machine with a scanning probe using 'L' probes
3) The probe is offset 12mm from quill centre - this sort of increases your CMM volume by and inch in each direction - useful for very small CMM's
From he looks of it, it appears to be a 2.5°version of the TeasstarM
Now whilst I agree with everyone else in terms of transferring programs I'd just like to mention the following plus points WRT to the Hexagon heads...
1) You've obviously got a smaller angular increment so you can access features easier without risking shanking, potentially enabling to to measure a greater amount of a feature for more accurate results
2) The ability to index to -ve A angles - I found this particularly useful when working a a machine with a scanning probe using 'L' probes
3) The probe is offset 12mm from quill centre - this sort of increases your CMM volume by and inch in each direction - useful for very small CMM's
