Hi all I was wondering if anybody out there has had any dealings with PAS Cmm
we have had somebody come into the firm to demonstrate it (I was not there at the time but somebody else took my place)\
it seems ok but I am a little concerned about the amount of support for it
in the UK it seems to be fairly expensive for the amount of benefits it gives compared to PC-Dmis
we also use a lot of custom scripts which it also doesn't support and would have to be edited in using PC-Dmis
they are trying to sell it to us for a month and they say that they can train people in four weeks to use it !
sorry if I sound a little sceptical (a dinosaur with over 20 years experience).
I am currently using 2016 MR4 and have asked hexagon to send in an apps engineer to asses my programming to see if I can do things quicker
personally I do not believe it
I would prefer for that amount of money to be spent on a renishaw sp25 scanning probe as this would speed up my programming by not taking single points to do constructions and scanning the surfaces instead I also hope we might see some speed increases on the cmm as some features are large bores approx. 1100mm diameter 72pt construction with 3mm prehit/retract compared to scanning has anybody seen this or is it just wish full thinking
