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How Did You Get Into CMM Programming?

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 hoped Hexagon would train for longer not just 1 week per level. What can you learn in a week? And when you have no mentors just yourself what can one week do? Level 2 was most useful but the instructor had only a short time to teach iterative & best fit alignments which was woefully not enough. 2 examples for iterative & one for best fit? I still have trouble getting around best fit alignment; iterative is a little better because I did some programs with that alignment. There was nothing about equate alignment I only got to know it via scrolling down on this forum hahaha.
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  • I hoped Hexagon would train for longer not just 1 week per level. What can you learn in a week? And when you have no mentors just yourself what can one week do? Level 2 was most useful but the instructor had only a short time to teach iterative & best fit alignments which was woefully not enough. 2 examples for iterative & one for best fit? I still have trouble getting around best fit alignment; iterative is a little better because I did some programs with that alignment. There was nothing about equate alignment I only got to know it via scrolling down on this forum hahaha.
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