What are the requirements to move a Hexagon SF7107? I don't have the original shipping braces. Can I purchase new ones? Does a technician have to over see the move? Or just recalibrate it after it's moved?
If you have a 7.10.7 SF, it's designed to be somewhat mobile. By somewhat, I mean rolling it into another room, across the shop floor, whatever. Basically, if you can push it by hand, you should be fine. If you're trying to move via vehicle, call Hexagon.
Are you certain you don't have the brackets? I don't know the specific design of that model, but I know for certain that on most other moveable machines, particularly the Sheffield Discovery, the installing tech almost always put the shipping brackets in the base. The Discovery brackets weren't all that large, either, mostly strategically spaced blocks a couple inches long.
I think what I would do, if I and a few others decided to move my CMM's ourselves. I would bring a couple cases of beer, buy some Red SOLO cups, so that after we move it, we can at least use the CMM as a beer pong table afterwards, because I believe that would be all it would be good for.
I'm moving it about 100 feet across the shop floor, but it doesn't have wheels. There are some removable panels at the bottom, so I'll check under there for the shipping braces. I wasn't here when it was originally installed.
I've been part of two 7.10.7 moves, and one 10.22.10. One small one moved across the shop via forklift. We had Hexagon in to secure it for the move. The other moved 20 feet across the room (swapped places with the big machine basically). We did that ourselves (the little one and the big one), with heavy machinery rollers. All you need is a bottle jack, the rollers, and some 4x4s.
Any big moves that require lifting with a forklift and moving across potentially uneven terrain should certainly be done with locking brackets and by professionals.
Any move, period, should be immediately followed by calibration. (By immediately I mean after giving the machine time to settle and before using it to measure parts, not the second it's in place...)
I somewhat agree with you, Random, but still wouldn't encourage this, even if it has wheels. One person understands what you wrote and would be careful. Problem is that one person won't move that machine alone. While people moving it would say "its got wheels" or "we're just moving it 50 feet" kinda lies in the best catch phrase ever "Hold my beer, and watch this!!"
I've moved Discoveries, 8s, 12s, and 28s, more times than I care to recall, they're tanks. Don't know much about the SFs, the "replacements", as evidenced that I didn't know the D-28 equivalent OP has doesn't have wheels, but am pretty comfortable that if they say they can be rolled, they can be rolled.