×
INTELLIGENT WORK FORUMS
FOR ENGINEERING PROFESSIONALS

Log In

Come Join Us!

Are you an
Engineering professional?
Join Eng-Tips Forums!
  • Talk With Other Members
  • Be Notified Of Responses
    To Your Posts
  • Keyword Search
  • One-Click Access To Your
    Favorite Forums
  • Automated Signatures
    On Your Posts
  • Best Of All, It's Free!
  • Students Click Here

*Eng-Tips's functionality depends on members receiving e-mail. By joining you are opting in to receive e-mail.

Posting Guidelines

Promoting, selling, recruiting, coursework and thesis posting is forbidden.

Students Click Here

Jobs

Hybid Articulated Arm + Linear Way CMM??

Hybid Articulated Arm + Linear Way CMM??

Hybid Articulated Arm + Linear Way CMM??

(OP)
I know that in 2000, Romer introduced a hybrid articulated arm CMM that was mounted on a linear rail, to facilitate the measurement of large parts, but I can not seem to find any info on anything like this.

A CMM of this type would be ideal for us.  We need to inspect parts that can be fairly long...up to 130".  Other than the length, the required working area is not that large.  Ideally, taking something like a Faro Multi Gage, Small Faro Arm, Romer Multi Gage, or other small arm, and mounting in on a linear axis would be ideal.  Add a high accuracy (.0001" resolution) linear encoder to the linear, and now you have a VERY accurate system for measuring large parts, that are long in nature.

Of course, the software would have to be configured to deal with this extra linear axis.  Mathematically, however...that would be VERY easy.  The easiest was would be to use flat ways, and actually use the slide ways in the alignment routine.

Is there anything out there like this?

Red Flag This Post

Please let us know here why this post is inappropriate. Reasons such as off-topic, duplicates, flames, illegal, vulgar, or students posting their homework.

Red Flag Submitted

Thank you for helping keep Eng-Tips Forums free from inappropriate posts.
The Eng-Tips staff will check this out and take appropriate action.

Reply To This Thread

Posting in the Eng-Tips forums is a member-only feature.

Click Here to join Eng-Tips and talk with other members!


Resources