Scantech Showcases Advanced 3D Scanning Solutions at Rapid + TCT 2024
Los Angeles, CA — Scantech, a leading provider of 3D solutions, showcased its latest advancements at the Rapid + TCT 2024, the largest and most influential additive manufacturing event in North America held from June 25 to 27 at the Los Angeles Convention Center.
How to Calculate Chord Length
A chord of a circle is a line segment with its endpoints on the circle. The diameter of a circle is a chord that intersects the center of the circle. A line that contains a chord of a circle is known as a secant of that circle. It is possible to calculate a chord's length when the circle's radius and the central angle of the chord are given. We can also calculate a chord's length when we know the circle's radius and distance of the chord to the center of the circle.
Form Datum - Calypso
What the Form Datum does is establish a FUNCTIONAL Datum Reference Frame coordinate system, similar to if you were setting up the primary, secondary, and tertiary datums on a functional checking gage. This is ONLY for a datum reference frame and does not modify how the base and secondary alignments evaluate their respective coordinate system. In the screen shot below, you can notice the different origin points are for a base alignment and datum reference frame.
Added MCOSMOS C1 v4 Manual
We have added a MCOSMOS C1 version 4 training manual to our products.
Understanding the 6 Degrees of Freedom
Understanding the principle of the 6 degrees of freedom is essential to aligning your part correctly on the Coordinate Measuring Machine (CMM). When a part is placed on the CMM the location of the part is not known. It must be defined by using several features known as datums.
Control Movement of Pattern of Holes Using VB Script
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Flexxbotics Integrates Hexagon Inspection Equipment
Flexxbotics, a supplier of workcell digitalization technologies for robot-driven manufacturing, has released FlexxCore, its advanced robotic machine tending in-line inspection connectivity compatible with Hexagon inspection equipment.
2-Day In-Person Public GD&T Training Event on July 9-10, 2024
This In-Person GD&T Fundamentals Public Training Course allows you to learn GD&T in 2-days - with a live in-person instructor, enabling you to complete training off site, without distractions from the office or home. In this course, we teach a simple framework for understanding how GD&T is used and why it improves the manufacturing process. Our GD&T Fundamentals course focuses on practical knowledge and uses real-world drawing examples throughout the class to practice what is learned.
AGILITY S 5-axis multi-sensor CMMs for the shop floor
Designed for shop floor environments
The S range of CMMs provides the ability to accurately measure parts in shop floor environments without temperature control. The rapid data capture speeds provided by 5-axis measurement reduce inspection cycle times, helping production departments keep pace with high volume manufacture. The systems work well in both stand-alone and fully automated production lines.
Cartesian Distance
In this example, the “Primary Datum” is the same as the “Spatial Rotation” and “Secondary Datum” is the same as the “Planar Rotation” inside an alignment. Selecting “Parallel To” or “Perpendicular” specifies the axis direction. i.e. the “X”, “Y” or “Z” axis
How To: Operation Planner
Do you manufacture parts in distinct operations? Is the part also inspected after / during each of these distinct manufacturing operations? Are you creating unique CMM-Manager programs for each operation? If so, there is a better way
Alignment with Offset Plane
The offset plane can be used in an alignment construction. A good example of an offset plane is cast datum points, where they are rarely on the same plane.