How hard is it to make tranistion for CMM to vision

I was in a very similar situation. I programmed CMM’s for 20 years, used PC-DMIS for 11 years, and used an OGP vision CMM for 13 years. We replaced the OGP with a Hexagon Optiv Performance 664 about a year and a half ago. The decision of what to buy was mine, within a certain budget, and I did not want another OGP because of the software.

I was told by the instructor for PC-DMIS vision that I just needed to get used to the lighting and that just about everything else was the same. That wasn’t true. One thing that was difficult for me was the fact that I used v4.1 for all of that time and was suddenly looking at a very different interface with v2014.

With the contact probe CMM you have manual features which certainly come in handy for the initial alignment. These are not part of the vision software. All measurements are with Auto Features, but they can be with auto or manual hits, with or without DCC.

You will definitely need to attend the vision class.

The biggest change that I found was measuring a circle. Even though the OGP software had a lot of dumb limitations it was extremely easy to measure a circle. Just double click the mouse on the edge and it would follow the edge until it came back to the start. The PC-DMIS vision software isn’t that smart. It needs to know the diameter and location of the center before it can measure it.

I was in a very similar situation. I programmed CMM’s for 20 years, used PC-DMIS for 11 years, and used an OGP vision CMM for 13 years. We replaced the OGP with a Hexagon Optiv Performance 664 about a year and a half ago. The decision of what to buy was mine, within a certain budget, and I did not want another OGP because of the software.

I was told by the instructor for PC-DMIS vision that I just needed to get used to the lighting and that just about everything else was the same. That wasn’t true. One thing that was difficult for me was the fact that I used v4.1 for all of that time and was suddenly looking at a very different interface with v2014.

With the contact probe CMM you have manual features which certainly come in handy for the initial alignment. These are not part of the vision software. All measurements are with Auto Features, but they can be with auto or manual hits, with or without DCC.

You will definitely need to attend the vision class.

The biggest change that I found was measuring a circle. Even though the OGP software had a lot of dumb limitations it was extremely easy to measure a circle. Just double click the mouse on the edge and it would follow the edge until it came back to the start. The PC-DMIS vision software isn’t that smart. It needs to know the diameter and location of the center before it can measure it.