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Career Aspiration - From inspector to programmer

MN = 32° +80/-200
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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  • I agree you should go for it, sounds like you know what you want, and with you already programming you have a understanding of alignments, GD&T, and inspection which translates to a lot of programming jobs.
    Just make sure you are being honest with the employers that want to interview you about your experience. There are alot of them out there that will train the right person.

    I just got a CMM Programming job six months ago, after working for the last 20 + years as a Inspector,Quality Tech, and Lead Quality Tech.but I never gave up on CMM programming because I enjoy it so much!!

    So don't give up!!! Slight smile

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    WOW!!! Congrats QS920 on your accomplishment!!!

    louisd, It took about 6yrs but it finally caught up to me. Great advice to share, thanks. To the OP I went from 1yr of QC5000 to a couple months of CMM Manager to a year or so of PC-DMIS to 1.5yrs of Verifurf and finally back to PC-DMIS. All thanks to employers willing to give this hyper active young buck a shot well not so young anymore...
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  • in reply to QS920
    WOW!!! Congrats QS920 on your accomplishment!!!

    louisd, It took about 6yrs but it finally caught up to me. Great advice to share, thanks. To the OP I went from 1yr of QC5000 to a couple months of CMM Manager to a year or so of PC-DMIS to 1.5yrs of Verifurf and finally back to PC-DMIS. All thanks to employers willing to give this hyper active young buck a shot well not so young anymore...
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