Considering new O-Inspect

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We are on the edge of buying another CMM.
The reason for this is a new customer which will take a lot of capacity on the CMM due to 100% inspection.

We are currently having a Contura, but it is overkill for a lot of the parts that we are doing.

The majority of our parts is turned parts from Ø2-Ø64. We don't do many part with extreme toght tolerances, but we use the CMM to have high repeatability and less errors due to human factors.

We have decided to go with a O-Inspect 543 because we will have the opportunity to take our current programs and load into the O-Inspect.
But we will also have the opportuniy to use optical measuring which is much faster than tactile and we could also measure some of the things that we would normally measure in optocal comparator.
We have done tests in Zeiss' test center to see if this will work.
But how does it work with a program that is both to be run on a Contura and O-Inspect?
Do I have to use miniplans?
Do I use two different base alignment?

Any other comments on our decision? I don't see a lot of O-Inspect questions in here.

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We have 3 O-inspects. One with tactile/camera/CFS & rotary.
No difference between the O-inspect and the Contura other than
size, type of sensors, and no RDS. Camera is a breeze to learn.

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Whoch kind of parts are you measuring in the O-Inspect?

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One O-inspect is dedicated to a high volume product for maxillofacial surgery. There is some pretty complex geometry at one end that gets inserted into a high speed drill used by the surgeon. We use tactile, camera and CFS to measure these parts. They are chucked horizontally in a rotary and therefore can flex when probed, so the critical measurements at the tip are done with the camera and CFS.

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Sounds good.
I feel more confident that this is a good solution for us as well.

I would love to do medical/surgical parts as well.

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If the orientation and everything else (consider filters and outliers!) is the same for both machines, you could just define alternative strategies for each feature, one for the O-Inspect and one for the Contura. You first define a new strategy name in the strategy dialog by righ-clicking on the three asterisks in the tab. Then you can define a new strategy under that name.
The CNC start window will then show an additional dropdown where you can select the desired strategy name.

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Change you indexing tips to star tips for the O-Inspect and run.

Not much difference other than that.

The O-Inspect 543 has a very small stage when you factor in moving star probes around a clearance cube, so make sure your parts are going to work in that situation.

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We try to have as many of our stylus' as stars. It save us time. And this is one of our goals with the O-Inspect as well.
90% of the parts we measure in CMM is smaller than Ø32 with a maximum lenght of 120mm.

At first we were looking at 343 and that is the machine we ran tests on, but the 543 is what we consider as it has a larger plane.