As I said I need some advise from you, The experts or at least The experienced. I am looking to follow in the footsteps of some others and purchase an arm to check chassis alignment on motorcycles (i.e. checking if a frame or a wheel is straight). I have found an 8 ft FARO Gold arm (circa 2002) that I'm interested in but they are currently unable to get their software (FARO Cam2 Measure) functional; thus unable to demonstrate whether the arm is functional. My biggest question is about software (this is where my ignorance will really show). Can non-faro software run/read from the arm? And get me the information I need, which would primarily be verifying planes and angles of various parts? Could I take a trial version on a laptop and use it to check the arm? I know software and license can be expensive and have briefly talked with someone at Faro who insisted on just sending out an engineer to talk to us. I have found a reference to Rhinoceros having Faro as a supported arm, but don't know if I would need any additional software besides something like that. Nor do I know if it would be proper to use either. Some websites say not to ever buy a CMM without functioning software, is this accurate??
Also the software key that I have read about. Sites talk say they are either USB or Parallel port plug-ins. Does modern software still use them? Are they machine specific or software specific? I can't honestly say whether this arm had a "key" with it.
Any advice, thoughts, comments would so greatly be appreciated.
Also the software key that I have read about. Sites talk say they are either USB or Parallel port plug-ins. Does modern software still use them? Are they machine specific or software specific? I can't honestly say whether this arm had a "key" with it.
Any advice, thoughts, comments would so greatly be appreciated.