【转帖】romer vs faro - age 3

huangyhg

we've got 3 faro arms & another that i've had access to for about 2 months. of our arms, two are older "gold" arms that do not have the 'infinite' range encoders. the other arm & the one i have access to are both titanium arms.
the two "gold" arms have only had one encoder go out one of them in 4 years (a few months ago).
the older of the two titanium arms has had two encoders replaced, then the next time one went out, they replaced the entire arm (completely new arm - serial number & all - not just new sections). now with the replaced arm, we've sent it back twice - just boxed it u to send it today - we hadn't had it back a month.
the other titanium arm i have access to is basically unused excet for testing out by programmers - no shop floor techs. it's too new to have had problems and thankfully, it hasn't.
i'm just starting on pcdmis for our cmm & didn't even realize it was available for faro arms. i'm still using cam2measure & softchecktools (softchecktools should be named majorainin@$$).
glad to see our new arms are as "good" as everyone else's.
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c-dmis v4.3 (as of 6/11/08)
cordax rs220
h10mq
scr200/t200
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i will strongly voice my opinion here.
faro software; cam 2 measur x is totally inferior to the pcdmis software.
no matter what the "glitches" you may have, or find in pcdmis, it is nothing in comparison to the cam 2 software.
i) as stated above, you can only have 1 alignment. if you have multile datum schemes, the solution that i was told was to make "multiple" reorts.
ii) during measurement, if you add notes to the "note" tab they do not show u in your report.
iii) extremely irritating is the fact that the rotation of the cad file on screen can drive you totally insane.
iv) mirroring of a cad file does not work as it should. aslo, you can not delete cad features as you can in pcdmis.
v) you are not able to measure all features, and then report them in the order that you wish to. this is easily done in cdmis.
vi) you can only have one cray view of your art in the cam 2 software.
vii) many of my cad files will not "function" as they should. not able to pick u surfaces etc. also, many times i have to consctuct a nominal for each feature and then associate it manually. (what a waste of time that is, esedially if you have many features).
these are just some of my observations over the past few months that i have been subjected to this software.
i would love to be back programming in the "demon".
kindest regards,
zydecoete