Well we just purchased a Romer with blue light scanner, This will be the first one I ever worked with. Technically we are getting this for the machinist to scan over the parts quickly on various operations, plus there has been times we had some funky parts with very tight profile tolerances. This is suppose to save me time, because I'm backed up on the CMM writing programs.......wait that means I got to write at least simple programs for the arm, yeah this will make things faster. Maybe I can keep it simple enough to get them to make simple programs for simple checks???? Well it ought to be fun.
if you don't have a BOLT-DOWN place for the arm (not just the mag-base) and if you don't have BOLTED DOWN fixture that never move around the arm at various places for them to check parts. Yeah, yer screwed.
We went with a third party that specializes in the roll around cart, with a granite top and specially bolts down in 3 different places on the cart. It's about $3000 cheaper and about 3 times better. Kinda like Rayco does for plates and flags.
Let us blue light feeble minded people know how good (or bad) that thing is! I've been wanting to trade in the ol' red dot of a laser for one of them fancy blue ones.
He demonstrated on our nice shiny parts, and it did fairly well, Thought we were gonna have to resort to the powder, but no. It did struggle a little bit in the threaded holes, but that's expected.
That's the real big main reason for wanting to trade.... I can't use my current laser on our production cell as we're not willing to train the robot to spray the parts down with powder! What exactly did you use for the demo and how shiny? I will pull the trigger on one if it can handle shiny, near mirror finish, machined aluminum parts.
Kp61dude! Aluminum fresh out of the machine, I would say somewhere in the range of 8-20 finish. It wasn't mirror fine like a 5 or below, but you can see your distorted image in them. have them come out and demonstrate. put some of your parts up there and let him scan, if you ain't impressed, just send him on his way.