There will be a new aviation company coming to town & I know they will have B&S machines with Blade software. My question is how much different is blade to the demon. Any help would be greatly appriciated.........
Please take this info with a grain of salt, as I just finished 2 days of Blade training at B&S in Huntersville, NC yesterday. While I already had the Blade softwares on my cmm, I would not have been able to run it without the "extras" I was giving during my one-on-one training, even if I knew how. While Blade and PCDMIS go together, they are also very separate from each other. The alignment and scanning is done with PCDMIS, but all the dimensioning, tolerancing, airfoil best-fit methodology, etc. is done outside of PCDMIS. IMHO, training is 100% required. You could probably teach yourself how to do it, but without the "extras", and knowing which methodologies (there are a few of them) meets your B/P and specs, I don't see how you could satisfy your customers requirements. Good luck (to both of us).
Please take this info with a grain of salt, as I just finished 2 days of Blade training at B&S in Huntersville, NC yesterday. While I already had the Blade softwares on my cmm, I would not have been able to run it without the "extras" I was giving during my one-on-one training, even if I knew how. While Blade and PCDMIS go together, they are also very separate from each other. The alignment and scanning is done with PCDMIS, but all the dimensioning, tolerancing, airfoil best-fit methodology, etc. is done outside of PCDMIS. IMHO, training is 100% required. You could probably teach yourself how to do it, but without the "extras", and knowing which methodologies (there are a few of them) meets your B/P and specs, I don't see how you could satisfy your customers requirements. Good luck (to both of us).
