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HEXAGON PCDMIS GD&T Training: Beneficial?

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Has anyone taken the HEXAGON GD&T class yet? Did you find it beneficial? Was there anything mind blowing you learned that you didn't already know?
  • I've gotten several certifications and learned a few things I didn't already know but every time I've gone for classes there's always someone there who has almost no programming experience. They always ask basic questions which result in the rest of the class missing out on getting to more advanced topics of discussion. When your completing labs in 15-20 minutes and there's one group that takes an hour plus and requires the constant attention of the instructor it can get frustrating. I wish they had prerequisite exams to group classes by skill level but it's kind of a gamble I guessRolling eyes At least they have free coffee though...
  • in reply to BigMac
    First Pcdmis class I went to, WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY back (roughly 30 years ago) there was:
    (1) One instructor
    (2) Me
    (3) 6 Chinese guys that couldn't speak English
    (4) 1 translator for said Chinese guys
    Yeah, that class sucked like you can't imagine.
    I already had B&S training years earlier, for Valmeas-200, and had taken a statistics class at the local community college. So all I really needed to learn was the new 'language', lucky for me, I had played with Pcdmis before going to class, so I had figured out most of what I needed to know already.
  • in reply to BigMac
    Ya that trumps my class experience by far...lol
  • I've learned something from nearly every technical class I've taken. Someone will say something in a slightly different way and then things that I only semi-understood come into sharp focus.
  • in reply to Hi-Tech Redneck
    i appreciate it. Just for reference that post is 13+ years old. I'm wondering how much has changed since then!

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    Yesterday, 08:49 PM
    i appreciate it. Just for reference that post is 13+ years old. I'm wondering how much has changed since then!
    Last edited by ; Yesterday, 08:51 PM.​


    There have been significant changes since then. The course was entirely re-written recently to teach people how to work with the new geometric tolerance command. Many aspects of how this new command works are vastly different from XactMeasure and Legacy dimensioning and the course discusses many of those differences. The course was delivered in-house to select applications engineers and tech support staff (globally) before being rolled out to customers and so far, the feedback we have received has been overwhelmingly positive.
  • I took the online GeoTol class last year and thought it was pretty good. The instructor was good and the materials were good. I did screenshots and saved as much as I could as we are not moving beyond 2019R2 (management decision) for a while due to the amount of changes we will need to make to jump from Xact to GeoTol and the lack of manpower to make those changes on all 3 shifts.
  • I had taken the Hexagon GD&T about 10 years ago, great class. I took one from AGI - "GD&T for Inspectors" that was a game changer because of the people in that class. A few Boeing Mechanical Engineers, Machinist's like me, a few CMM programmers. GREAT discussions. I also took a course from Jim Meadows through the University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee. It covered GD&T, Tolerance Stack up and gaging. That class was also a game changer.
  • I had taken the Hexagon GD&T about 10 years ago, great class. I took one from AGI - "GD&T for Inspectors" that was a game changer because of the people in that class. A few Boeing Mechanical Engineers, Machinist's like me, a few CMM programmers. GREAT discussions. I also took a course from Jim Meadows through the University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee. It covered GD&T, Tolerance Stack up and gaging. That class was also a game changer.

    I took that same class at UW-Milwaukee. Still have the books as well. Learned a TON. The Hexagon GD&T class I took back in the day was good too. If focused on GD&T and applying it to PCDMIS programming. Connected the dots you could say. Back then it was two weeks long.....Rolling eyes
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