What is Quindos? Like it?

A guess?

If the user has decent background knowledge in basic requirements such as:
Proper CMM Alignments
GD&T (interpretation AND application)
that will speed things up.

At minimum, a week of basic training is required before even turning Qindos on.

Everything in Quindos is Quindos-specific:
Feature creation
Feature naming
Alignment creation
Alignment activation (in PCDMIS when an alignment is created it also becomes
the active alignment; not so in Quindos)
and anything else you can think of.

It uses databases (about 20 or so)to store/retrieve all information, not files
like PCDMIS. Totally different.

Example:
Our CMM (Leitz) is used to measure helical screw gears (maybe similar to
what you're looking at. We inherited the machine and the associated
products when a recently-purchased facility was shut down and moved to
our location.) That application has its own set of specific commands
for feature creation, alignments, measuring lead & profile, etc.

I went through a week of training - the first couple days were on some basic
stuff, the last 2 1/2 days were on the specific inspection program that the
trainer had written. It took HIM 2 weeks to write it, and 2 weeks to prove it
out on-site, and he is the expert.

So -
"How long would you guess it takes for a user to learn to inspect helical gears with Quindos?"

IF the individual's time is devoted to the CMM, and IF he/she has a good
background and Quindos training -

I'd give it 2 - 3 months, if starting from scratch.
If part of the training includes writing (or starting) an inspection program for
production use, maybe half that.

This is just a guess, remember. HTH

A guess?

If the user has decent background knowledge in basic requirements such as:
Proper CMM Alignments
GD&T (interpretation AND application)
that will speed things up.

At minimum, a week of basic training is required before even turning Qindos on.

Everything in Quindos is Quindos-specific:
Feature creation
Feature naming
Alignment creation
Alignment activation (in PCDMIS when an alignment is created it also becomes
the active alignment; not so in Quindos)
and anything else you can think of.

It uses databases (about 20 or so)to store/retrieve all information, not files
like PCDMIS. Totally different.

Example:
Our CMM (Leitz) is used to measure helical screw gears (maybe similar to
what you're looking at. We inherited the machine and the associated
products when a recently-purchased facility was shut down and moved to
our location.) That application has its own set of specific commands
for feature creation, alignments, measuring lead & profile, etc.

I went through a week of training - the first couple days were on some basic
stuff, the last 2 1/2 days were on the specific inspection program that the
trainer had written. It took HIM 2 weeks to write it, and 2 weeks to prove it
out on-site, and he is the expert.

So -
"How long would you guess it takes for a user to learn to inspect helical gears with Quindos?"

IF the individual's time is devoted to the CMM, and IF he/she has a good
background and Quindos training -

I'd give it 2 - 3 months, if starting from scratch.
If part of the training includes writing (or starting) an inspection program for
production use, maybe half that.

This is just a guess, remember. HTH