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GeoNews - November 2007 |
Edition 2007.10 |
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Articulating your inspections! |
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 Do
your inspections
suffer from the
Setup Blues?
This condition is a
result of having to
change the setup of
your work piece by
repositioning it to
allow access by your
probe system. Not a
very efficient way
of performing an
inspection.
By changing your
setup, you must
recreate coordinate
systems which often
leads to
inconsistent
results. However, if
you can leave your
work piece and
change the probe
orientation, you can
now access all sides
of your work piece
without the need to
rebuild coordinate
systems.
Traditionally the
cost of a
articulating probe
head was only for
companies that had
deep pockets to
invest in a system
that costs well over
$20k. Not anymore.
The Renishaw RTP20
is a low-cost
"motorized" probe
head for use with
your DCC style CMM.
Available for all
motorized CMMs with
no modifications to
your CMM or existing
inspection programs.
To learn more, visit
the
RTP20 Home page.
Currently we are
offering the RTP20
system with a
matching
MCP20 Stylus Rack
System at a
special price.
Contact,
sales@helmel.com
for more
information.
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Announcements
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Need
Training!
We currently have openings in
our November training schedule
for Geomet 101 and Geomet 301
users.
If you have not been to one of
our training programs you are
possibly losing out on some of
the power Geomet has to offer.
If you have taken a training
program and want to keep up with
all the changes, these courses
are for you.
To discuss the training
programs, contact Bob Cliffe at
BobC@helmel.com, or give us
a call at:
1-800-BEST-CMM
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The Geomet Family Expands -
Introducing Geomet 501
Changes have been underway over the
past year to expand our Geomet 301 product to now
support the Renishaw UCC2 controller. With it's
completion, Helmel is now proud to introduce Geomet
501. All the capabilities of Geomet 301, plus new
scanning tools that take advantage of the analog
scanning system such as the
SP25.
Now you can capture large data clouds on all
features. This allows you the additional data you
need to get a better understanding of the feature
being validated. Obtaining a profile of a circle is
now done in just a few seconds to capture thousands
of data points where on traditional touch probe
systems it would takes minutes or even hours.
To learn more on the capabilities of Geomet 501 and
the UCC2 system,
check here.
Contact,
sales@helmel.com for more information.
Is your Geomet Connected?
Keeping you up-to-date with the latest changes and product support has never been easier. Geomet links directly to our product support site, iGeomet.com.
Through this connection you have access to context links
that navigate directly to a help page based on the
current action inside Geomet. Are you measuring a Circle
and need assistance? Just hit the <F1> key and Geomet
will locate the help pages for the Circle and take you
there.
Accessing help pages is just one way Geomet keeps
you connected. When you need support, our Application
Engineers can connect directly to you CMM through our
GeoConnect service. By connecting, we can perform
tests, make system changes and work directly with you on
inspection techniques. We will see what you see and we
can even press the buttons, access the menus as if we
were standing by your side.
If you are not connected, do so today.
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Stylus ReQualify
The process of Qualifying your stylus ensures proper
stylus size and location registered within the
inspection software. When multiple styli are required in
your inspection, qualifying each stylus ensures you can
switch between styli without any loss of data or
coordinate systems. While this is a solid approach to
your inspection plans, it is not a guarantee that
changes to your stylus configurations will not carry
with it inherent errors.
Inspection software provides a
Re-Qualify method to test and update any changes to
your stylus database. For example, if you bend your
stylus, even by the slightest amount, an error will be
added to your inspection. Daily changes in temperature,
wearing of the ball and other environmental changes can
only affect the accuracy of your inspections.
On CMMs that offer a repeatable home position, you can
build a part program that will automatically update the
stylus information by performing an automatic
Re-Qualify. This program can then be run at anytime to
ensure changes to the Stylus data is properly recorded.
Most companies use this process once a day, or once per
shift as the quality policy states.
Building the Re-Qualify program is a efficient process
that utilizes a Fixture Coordinate System (FCS) to
locate the reference sphere, then a series of taught
motion path while capturing data points while in the
Re-Qualify step. This can be illustrated in the
Re-Qualify example found here.
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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.
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Helmel Engineering
Products Inc.
6520 Lockport Road
Niagara Falls, NY 14305
Phone: (716) 297-8644
Fax: (716) 297-9405 |
© 2007 Helmel Engineering Products, Inc. |
Helmel West
2324 North Batavia Street
Orange, CA 92865
Phone: (714) 637-9378
Fax: (714) 637-5266 |
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www.1-800-BEST-CMM.com
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www.iGeomet.com |
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