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Horizontal CMM Experience? Looking for info...

Anyone have experience running a horizontal CMM?

We have a customer that's run one of our fixtures and it checked good here and at 3rd party, but they're getting a bunch of Z axis points out.

I know their machine hasn't been calibrated in 5 years, but are there any horizontal CMM quirks that cause sagging in the Z or anything? I know nothing about horizontal setups... The deviation is around .15 in the center and around .35 down the X.... again, only points primarily with a Z approach.

Thanks for the insight.... I'm confused :/
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  • It took an act of nature for me to get some formal training. A thunderstorm took out our twenty year old machine, which forced the company to buckle down and finally buy a new one. The new one came with two seats of level one training. If it weren't for that, I would still be fumbling around with DMIS 4.3 on a Windows XP computer with no internet or network connectivity.
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  • It took an act of nature for me to get some formal training. A thunderstorm took out our twenty year old machine, which forced the company to buckle down and finally buy a new one. The new one came with two seats of level one training. If it weren't for that, I would still be fumbling around with DMIS 4.3 on a Windows XP computer with no internet or network connectivity.
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