I am wondering, if it's possible, to scan a part without a CAD File and extrapolate data and measurements from the scan and export that data into a CAD File. If this is possible, how do you do that?
Yep. Probe comp works the same, except for the little detail where after the scan is completed PC-DMIS processes the ball-center-data it gathered and applies the comp to each datapoint. Without using CAD the comp can be fine for simple, smooth, low-rate-of-change surfaces or wildly wrong for compound complex surfaces. Even with CAD you can still have comp error if the part is too far from nominal.
Scanning is fun and profitable, you should try it. So much data! Make beautiful full-color plots that perfectly illustrate just how bad the parts are - a picture is worth well over a million numbers in today's market.
Also, it has this little time savings over TTP when Reverse Engineering - jobs that took me 40 or 50 hours using TTP take about 3 or 4 with scanning.
Oh, I scan, I scan a lot. In fact, that is what I am doing right now, but this is 2-D scanning (trim details, on my special plate).
BUT, my machine can not do anything BUT TTP (Sharpe32 controller).
For 3D scanning, I use the "laser" on the 7-axis SI.
Yep. Probe comp works the same, except for the little detail where after the scan is completed PC-DMIS processes the ball-center-data it gathered and applies the comp to each datapoint. Without using CAD the comp can be fine for simple, smooth, low-rate-of-change surfaces or wildly wrong for compound complex surfaces. Even with CAD you can still have comp error if the part is too far from nominal.
Scanning is fun and profitable, you should try it. So much data! Make beautiful full-color plots that perfectly illustrate just how bad the parts are - a picture is worth well over a million numbers in today's market.
Also, it has this little time savings over TTP when Reverse Engineering - jobs that took me 40 or 50 hours using TTP take about 3 or 4 with scanning.
Oh, I scan, I scan a lot. In fact, that is what I am doing right now, but this is 2-D scanning (trim details, on my special plate).
BUT, my machine can not do anything BUT TTP (Sharpe32 controller).
For 3D scanning, I use the "laser" on the 7-axis SI.
