My curent company is looking into getting me a FARO laser tracker/arm combo including their software package. How does this software compare to DMIs? Has anyone used both?
The CAM2 software that comes with FARO is limited in what it can do compared to PC-DMIS. The only thing I like better about the FARO sotware is that if you have operators who don't know what they're doing that can't mess up the program like they can in PC-DMIS. It has a seperate programming mode and run mode.
Among the many limitations is that your can't report polar coordinates, only cartesian. When you change alignments, it always changes the readings for everything in the program so you have to print each set of features in it's own alignment seperatly.
The CAM2 software that comes with FARO is limited in what it can do compared to PC-DMIS. The only thing I like better about the FARO sotware is that if you have operators who don't know what they're doing that can't mess up the program like they can in PC-DMIS. It has a seperate programming mode and run mode.
Among the many limitations is that your can't report polar coordinates, only cartesian. When you change alignments, it always changes the readings for everything in the program so you have to print each set of features in it's own alignment seperatly.
