Any thoughts as to the benifits of Romer over Faro? My shop is thinking of getting a portable CMM and I'd like to get some imput as to which you think is better. Also do you have any suggestions in gereral for what to be careful about with portable CMMs?
When I had to use a Faro arm, we went through a lot of encoders. The place I worked at the time had two Faro arms and one was always in for encoder repairs. The cam 2 software did not work correctly on a large mold with shrinkage bulit into the die. It could not balance the error equally around the part. We had Faro out and they could not get it to work correctly. The die had to be put on a machine with PCDMIS to get it to iterate correctly. Also always use a surge protector with a battery back up. because it is easy to fry your arm with a power surge.
When I had to use a Faro arm, we went through a lot of encoders. The place I worked at the time had two Faro arms and one was always in for encoder repairs. The cam 2 software did not work correctly on a large mold with shrinkage bulit into the die. It could not balance the error equally around the part. We had Faro out and they could not get it to work correctly. The die had to be put on a machine with PCDMIS to get it to iterate correctly. Also always use a surge protector with a battery back up. because it is easy to fry your arm with a power surge.
