Hi all,
We are making large, heavy assemblies that get custom machine work, welding, and flame spray. It is a combination of fabrication and machine work. Your typical callouts are used such as true position, parallelism, perpendicularity, profile, etc. GD&T stuff. I want a way to inspect these things. A full 5 axis CMM cannot actually get inside the actual assembly. The assembly has a ton of internal welded feature and machined features. We have a faro arm but we need something better. We want to be able to inspect the units on site and in the field.
I was looking at buying a hand-held laser scanner unit, such as the Leica Absolute Tracker from Hexagon. Is this a good unit? Anybody have experience with it? Are there any other brands I should consider or any other metrology solutions I should consider?
We are making large, heavy assemblies that get custom machine work, welding, and flame spray. It is a combination of fabrication and machine work. Your typical callouts are used such as true position, parallelism, perpendicularity, profile, etc. GD&T stuff. I want a way to inspect these things. A full 5 axis CMM cannot actually get inside the actual assembly. The assembly has a ton of internal welded feature and machined features. We have a faro arm but we need something better. We want to be able to inspect the units on site and in the field.
I was looking at buying a hand-held laser scanner unit, such as the Leica Absolute Tracker from Hexagon. Is this a good unit? Anybody have experience with it? Are there any other brands I should consider or any other metrology solutions I should consider?