I just inherited a Romer Arm from a sister company that bought it in 2017. They never used it since the classes, so we now have it to put it to use. It's an Absolute Arm 7 axis 7525 SE with an external HP-L-20.8 Laser Scanning System.
I'm not counting on getting sent to classes, so I may have a "few" questions as I try to make this thing useful.
calibrating the scanner is a huge PITA.
the scanner itself is really nice but very fragile. Lucky you, the HPL works well on shiny/machined surfaces.
do your homework on how to extract features from a pointcloud. It's not complicated, it's just tedious. Lots of settings.