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Career Aspiration - From inspector to programmer

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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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  • If you can somehow start a high school or something similar then you can get a seat for pennies on the dollar. We bought a CNC , ROBOT and CMM for a high school and we have 10 offline seats for them to use in 1 of their manufacturing classes. A single offline seat may be the cheaper option.

    So many jobs out there. You need to start looking ! Someone with 5 years already in quality ? Sounds good to me. Heck, most of the time the quality job goes to the guy who makes the least scrap parts !!!
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  • If you can somehow start a high school or something similar then you can get a seat for pennies on the dollar. We bought a CNC , ROBOT and CMM for a high school and we have 10 offline seats for them to use in 1 of their manufacturing classes. A single offline seat may be the cheaper option.

    So many jobs out there. You need to start looking ! Someone with 5 years already in quality ? Sounds good to me. Heck, most of the time the quality job goes to the guy who makes the least scrap parts !!!
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