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Anyone know how to use a white light sensor??

Hi all,
I'm pretty new at PCDMIS and am scheduled for training on the white light sensor in July but I have a request to perform a scan on a piece of lead. I need to scan a ~1mm x 1mm square and report the results (hopefully a color, 3d rendered graphic). I think the engineer is primarliy looking for surface roughness. We are attempting to compare results from an outside measurement house. The range from the outside vendor looks to be about 30 microns (peak to trough). I am not sure of the resolution of this sensor and if we are even capable of accurately performing the measurement. I would hope this thing can measure down to a micron or two.

I couldn't get the linear open scan to work so I created a pattern (offset a surface point by .04mm) and pasted that pattern in the machine Y. So now I have 1 line made of 26 points. The scan worked fine. Then I tried to creat a report but couldn't find a way to get it.
My end goal was to offset the 26 point line by .04mm in the machine X to complete my 1mm x1mm square.

Thanks in advance
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  • It’s a shame that no one has responded to this post in 5 ½ months. Our Optiv 664 is in the process of being installed right now. It has a 3mm chromatic white light sensor that I have not yet been training for. I had training for PC-DMIS Vision two months ago but they didn’t have a CWS available to even look at.
    The technician setting up the Optiv 664 told me he has seen about 50 optical CMM’s with the CWS but only about two or three of them were ever used. They cost more than a laser, so how can people buy them and not use them?
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  • It’s a shame that no one has responded to this post in 5 ½ months. Our Optiv 664 is in the process of being installed right now. It has a 3mm chromatic white light sensor that I have not yet been training for. I had training for PC-DMIS Vision two months ago but they didn’t have a CWS available to even look at.
    The technician setting up the Optiv 664 told me he has seen about 50 optical CMM’s with the CWS but only about two or three of them were ever used. They cost more than a laser, so how can people buy them and not use them?
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