White Light Scanning

Scanners vs. cmm

I have seen a few demo'd in the last couple weeks and have had some exposure to a couple others in operation in the last couple years. Our company is investigating the possibility of purchase of a white light scanner and I have been 'appointed' to assist the engineer in evaluating several systems.
Our primary use will be to reverse engineer newly built and existing tooling. During development of the parts, the electronic data of the tooling is rendered useless by hand working forms on the dies. Impossible to cut replacement tooling from cad data without redoing all the hand work each time the tooling is recut. Some of our dies have a run life of 3-4 months and at that time the steels are worn out and need replacement.
The best system, FOR OUR NEEDS, at this time seems to be the ATOS. Pricey, but with the bundeled software, I think it's the ticket.
I don't think a scanner will ever 100% replace a cmm. For one thing, there is just waaayyyy to much data generated. Just how many points/features do you really need to check to verify a part?

Scanners vs. cmm

I have seen a few demo'd in the last couple weeks and have had some exposure to a couple others in operation in the last couple years. Our company is investigating the possibility of purchase of a white light scanner and I have been 'appointed' to assist the engineer in evaluating several systems.
Our primary use will be to reverse engineer newly built and existing tooling. During development of the parts, the electronic data of the tooling is rendered useless by hand working forms on the dies. Impossible to cut replacement tooling from cad data without redoing all the hand work each time the tooling is recut. Some of our dies have a run life of 3-4 months and at that time the steels are worn out and need replacement.
The best system, FOR OUR NEEDS, at this time seems to be the ATOS. Pricey, but with the bundeled software, I think it's the ticket.
I don't think a scanner will ever 100% replace a cmm. For one thing, there is just waaayyyy to much data generated. Just how many points/features do you really need to check to verify a part?