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Global S Green - New machine !

Smasherofprobes
Hey guys!

The company I work for has decided to upgrade our machine after watching me pull all my hair out and bought me a brand new Global S (Green). Not bad moving from a Ph9 up to a HP-S-X1. This new technology is amazing!

I'm like a kid in a candy store looking at all the accessories. ( I even have a probe rack now Sunglasses )

I'm assuming that some of you have this same machine, how good of a job has it done for you ? or what have you heard about these Global S Green machines ? They are not cheap !

Thanks
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  • Something to think about and from what we have learned to keep your runtimes from getting long winded due to the way the HP-S-X1 records the measurement (on retract) is to turn FASTPROBE/ON. I've done some testing and correlation studies here (we are medical) and by turning FASTPROBE/ON and slowing the touch speed down I can still maintain the program runtime. Scanning can and will reduce your time too.

    I was told (by a Hexagon AE) that we would lose accuracy but from the correlation studies that we did we lost nothing. Same CMM, same part and same probe builds with several programs ran with FASTPROBE/OFF then again with FASTPROBE/ON.

    FASTPROBE/OFF ran at 8+ minutes vs. FASTPROBE/ON at a little over 7 minutes. One doesn't think a minute is much but over 24/6 that makes a difference.

    Our parts have tolerances anywhere from +/-0.25mm down to +/-0.010mm.

    Out of curiosity, what do you have your touchspeed at with fast probe mode on?
  • in reply to bfire85
    When they setup the Global here, they had it set to 6mm/second and I've stayed with that.
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