GeoNews - September 2007

Edition 2007.8

MP100 Video Probe!

Checkmaster SMMExtend the capabilities of your CMM with this exciting approach to contact and non-contact measurement. The MP100 is designed to provide you with these capabilities, and better yet, Geomet unleashes its power for full 2D and 3D inspections.

Better yet! The MP100 is can easily be connected to you manual CMM with no additional software or hardware expenses.

The MP100 consists of a color CCD camera unit, dual monitor configuration and custom lighting controls, click here to view the full MP100 package.


 Announcements
Don't forget to visit us at Quality 2007!

Helmel Engineering will be at the Quality 2007 Trade Show held at the Donald Stephens Convention Center in Rosemont, Illinois.

Quality Expo 2007 has moved from its late spring time slot to September 25-27.

Visit our  Events Page and click on the Quality Expo logo to register and receive up to $55 off your entrance fee.



General News

September 25-27 - Quality Expo, Rosemont, IL

Helmel will be exhibiting at the Quality Expo in Rosemont (Chicago) IL, September 25-27, 2007. Held every two years in Chicago, this is the largest exhibition in North America of inspection and measurement instruments, devices, and software used in the quality and reverse engineering fields. For the first time the Quality Expo will be held in conjunction with four other shows: Assembly Technology, Electronics Assembly, National Manufacturing Week, and Plastec. This insures that there will be many hundreds of exhibitors (300 in Quality alone), and tens of thousands of visitors to these shows.

Helmel will be demonstrating several of our CMM systems at the show, including the new Microgage, the Checkmaster, both sizes of the Phoenix, and a Microstar with UCC2 control and the SP25 continuous scanning probe system. These are hands-on demos, so we hope to see you there - and bring parts to play with!

For more information and costs, please contact our Sales Department at sales@helmel.com.

Art Whistler - Vice President Sales - email: Art@helmel.com


Keep your CMM Software Current  

CMM Software is changing daily. New features and updates are constantly being published. Keep your software current with the latest changes by visiting our Geomet web site download page at: http://www.geomet-cmm-software.com/download.htm.

For those customers that maintain a Software Service Contract (SSC), they receive an automatic upgrade every six month, June and December. Minor changes are posted on the web site and can be downloaded and installed on demand. That is a benefit of maintaining your SSC. To obtain additional information on SSC programs, please contact our sales department at (716) 297-8644 or request information here
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Geomet Tip & Tricks
Radial Point Measurement 

"A circle is a circle, let's just use the circle routine to measure that large radius".

Unfortunately that is too often the norm. Measuring large, and even small radius features often leads to unreliable results that compromises your entire inspection. Understanding the strengths of your CMM and metrology software will enable you to choose the correct measuring routine for any feature measurement.

The Radial Point routine is one of the most often over-looked tools in your metrology software. The Radial Point will deliver the results you expect on large or limited radius features. To see the tutorial for this feature, click here.


Need Help or Suggestions?  

To help you to learn about the power of Geomet, we are launching a series of tutorials and programming examples. Do you need a specific example? Please submit to us a request to include a tutorial or programming example in future GeoNews editions.


Helmel Engineering Products Inc.
6520 Lockport Road
Niagara Falls, NY 14305

Phone: (716) 297-8644
Fax: (716) 297-9405



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