Revo and PC-DMIS

Well, only if Renishaw allows them too. So I will have to say Nope.

Equator with pcdmis
Post 23
Comment 23.1
https://www.pcdmisforum.com/forum/pc-dmis-enterprise-metrology-software/pc-dmis-for-cmms/514849-equator-with-pcdmis/page2?pp=515134#post517389

By Peter Fuller
The new Revo only works with it's own hardware. Renishaw does not sell the components to integrate it into other controllers. If you have a REVO based machine with a Renishaw UCC controller you can use it with PC-DMIS, but none of the specialized sweep scanning features will work. It will work just like a mapped wrist.

Could be possible. Wenzel (Quartis) also support the revo system

Yes they do. But what type of controller are they using?

I don't know. Probably the renishaw controller. But the fancy scanning methods work

I have used the I ++ interface on a coord 3 cmm with a Revo head with PC Dmis and i can tell you it was a huge PITA, so much so that we dumped the whole cmm and replaced it with a Global 9-12-8 with the HH-AS8-T2.5 head with the LSP sensor. we still have 4 Revos but 3 are running Modus and 1 is testing metrologic software. also we could never get a straight answer from Renishaw on what the accuracy of the revo head is, in full scanning we were seeing up .0015 (inch) deviations.

I have used the I ++ interface on a coord 3 cmm with a Revo head with PC Dmis and i can tell you it was a huge PITA, so much so that we dumped the whole cmm and replaced it with a Global 9-12-8 with the HH-AS8-T2.5 head with the LSP sensor. we still have 4 Revos but 3 are running Modus and 1 is testing metrologic software. also we could never get a straight answer from Renishaw on what the accuracy of the revo head is, in full scanning we were seeing up .0015 (inch) deviations.

YIKES! we have thought about this, but only because of Renishaw's website. thank you for this, I think we are going to pass for now!

I was told that Hexagon and Renishaw fought a legal battle over this tech and Hexagon was found to have infringed on patents... So no Revo for Hexagon or similar product. 8(

Seems silly, because Renishaw is sorta cutting themselves out of a huge market or Hexagon is cutting themselves out ... anyway, someone somewhere is still b_u_t_t hurt about the whole thing.

...get a straight answer from Renishaw on what the accuracy of the revo head is, in full scanning we were seeing up .0015 (inch) deviations.

Running a Revo, Renishaw controllers, I++ through UCCServer. Software on top of that is mCosmos.

I pull loose R&R at .0004" potential error and uncertainty running 10 parts, three times each with three people.

When I iterate the alignment, I get .00015" potential error in R&R.


That's an order of magnitude smaller than you are seeing. Not sure why, though.


My R&R's do scanning, touch probing and head touching.


I'm not doing blades, but I have it for inducers with helical vanes for pulling fluid up into pumps. Those are five axis scanning, but I don't run it anywhere near as fast as on the website demos.


Also, since it is functioning full five axis with "infinite" angles from single qualification, I LOVE it.

Scanning Ø.250 holes that are 8" deep in a manifold with infinite angles is WONDERFUL! I know when a drill is walking and where it is walking to.
Production hates that I know that, but I love it!

what CMM are you using?