AAT3D Documents & Whitepapers
A high-end metrology platform like CappsNC can perform all CMM tasks directly on a NC machine. CappsNC uses a separate PC that is connected to the NC machine tool via Ethernet. This dedicated PC performs all the measurement calculations. On-machine measurement programs can be created offline in familiar DMIS language with collision avoidance and program simulations.
There are a lot of different technologies and pieces of equipment that have revolutionized the manufacturing industry, and CNC measurement with machine probing software certainly falls into this category. This is a form of metrology software that will operate on machine tools so that metrology information is produced directly onto the machine through the use of on-machine probing.
Manufacturing a high precision die is a long process that requires dimensional measurement at multiple phases. Traditionally, this is done by a Coordinate Measuring Machines located at a controlled environment.
Dimensional measurement has been used to as a part of a manufacturing system for many years and measurement and manufacturing systems are being brought ever closer to meet the current production requirements with the advent of things such as a blue light laser sensor.