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Hello,
At work they gave me the task of finding the way of proove that the measured part will mate another part even before trying this.
We have a whole team working with PC DMIS and the give us the results as reports, but to present to the customer we need to show graphically that the part will mate the mating part.
I use Solidworks and I was thinking on the possibility of importing the results, but maybe there is even the possibility of doing this directly in PC DMIS(?)
So the tasks are:
-to overlay the results form the CMM on top of the STP file or Solidworks model.
-Add the mating part and proove that there are no interferences.

Do you have any ideas?
Thank you very much

Franco Attolini
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  • I agree with Matt. Unless there are very specific mating requirements, ie interference fits, specific minimum gaps, CAD is usually drawn assuming all parts are exactly nominal and mate as such.

    You would likely need full scan data of both the part and the mate, which would still only be helpful for that 1 part and mate. It couldn't guarantee that it will mate with any other part, or that any other part will also mate exactly the same.

    It sounds like they have no confidence in their tolerancing abilities.
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  • I agree with Matt. Unless there are very specific mating requirements, ie interference fits, specific minimum gaps, CAD is usually drawn assuming all parts are exactly nominal and mate as such.

    You would likely need full scan data of both the part and the mate, which would still only be helpful for that 1 part and mate. It couldn't guarantee that it will mate with any other part, or that any other part will also mate exactly the same.

    It sounds like they have no confidence in their tolerancing abilities.
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