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Career Aspiration - From inspector to programmer

Hello. I have been working as a Fabrication Inspector for several years now. Of our five-person inspection team, I do 95% of the CMM programming, which I thoroughly enjoy. My inspection job has been rewarding, but I want to make a change.

My passion and skill set lie in programming, and I would like to transition into a career as a full time CMM programmer. This will not be possible with my current employer, so I have begun researching programmer jobs. Also, my company currently uses Zeiss Calypso software, but my investigation into programmer jobs has made it clear that I need to learn PC-DMIS.

My questions are:

1. Is there any way to obtain an offline seat for PC-DMIS for educational purposes (I cannot afford 10k for a standard offline seat)?

2. Does anyone have any advice on how I make this transition from inspector to CMM programmer?

Thanks for your time.

-Jeff
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  • Your best bet might be looking for a part time job at a shop with PC-DMIS and learning there, not saying that would be easy to find.


    or a full time job? Maybe you need to take the leap, if that is really what you want to do. Switch jobs to a place and start as a PC-DMIS CMM operator, they may even send you to PC-DMIS programming class to start you off.
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  • Your best bet might be looking for a part time job at a shop with PC-DMIS and learning there, not saying that would be easy to find.


    or a full time job? Maybe you need to take the leap, if that is really what you want to do. Switch jobs to a place and start as a PC-DMIS CMM operator, they may even send you to PC-DMIS programming class to start you off.
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