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How Did You Get Into CMM Programming?

ALousyUser
Just as the title says - how'd you first make your stake as a CMM programmer?

For me it was when a recruiter on LinkedIn randomly reached out to me asking if I was interested in being a Metrologist for an international company while I was working as a Quality Inspector at a job shop in 2020, just before the pandemic. I knew nothing about Metrology/CMM programming until I blew the technical portion of the interview process and got hired anyway haha! Ended up being mentored by a professional for 2 years before moving onto a specialized CMM programming gig at another company in 2022.

I figured - as it seems like a lot of us got on-the-job training for CMM programming, you guys/gals must have some interesting stories to share about how you got to where you are now, as CMM programmers.
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  • I started as a Quality Inspector in a foundry in 1973 while attending the local tech school studying Machine Shop/Tool & Die Technology, later completing that program and earning the degree. I was later asked to join the Layout Dept doing surface plate inspections, which I picked up quickly. After about five years of this, the company purchased their first DCC CMM in 1990, a B&S Excel 7-10-7 with AVAIL software, later upgraded to MM4. They already had a manual Validator with MM3 that I had been learning to program. Been programming CMMs pretty much since then, several languages, now PC-DMIS for several years.
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  • I started as a Quality Inspector in a foundry in 1973 while attending the local tech school studying Machine Shop/Tool & Die Technology, later completing that program and earning the degree. I was later asked to join the Layout Dept doing surface plate inspections, which I picked up quickly. After about five years of this, the company purchased their first DCC CMM in 1990, a B&S Excel 7-10-7 with AVAIL software, later upgraded to MM4. They already had a manual Validator with MM3 that I had been learning to program. Been programming CMMs pretty much since then, several languages, now PC-DMIS for several years.
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