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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.

Any preemptive pointers are welcome.

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Schrocknroll over 5 years ago

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.

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I've tried it on shiny turned surfaces and does work. The downside is you have to be near perfectly facing the surface being scanned. The front face of the part wasn't too bad. The O.D. is possible, but will require many, many, many scans around it to create a surface, unless you're OK with strips of scans at regular intervals instead of a complete O.D.
The I.D. was a no go since it is smaller than the scanning head. With matte surfaces you can capture part of the way down holes as the light will bounce back up a bit. With shiny parts, no such luck.
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AndersI over 5 years ago in reply to Schrocknroll

And don't forget that, when spraying, you're adding material to the surfaces...
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AndersI over 5 years ago in reply to Schrocknroll

And don't forget that, when spraying, you're adding material to the surfaces...
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