CMM Setups you guys use.

[[Ro...]]

Do you have only Zeiss or do you have B&S or other CMM brands? if others do they mainly use TP-20 setups?
Do most of you use "fixture Plates" (renishaw, rayco) or do you stick to bare granite? and if so are they 1/4-20 or M6 or M8?
Do you have Vast XT or XXT?
Just trying to get an idea of what you guys use day to day.

[[Ra...]]

(1) Eclipse with Vast XT and Calypso
(1) Contura with U-Soft (slowly fading from service)

Both have aluminum plates on the granite with an array of threaded holes for fixtures. I design fixtures in CMM for fab in our tool room; we hold machined cast iron (10 lbs. up to 150 lbs.), so we require robust fixtures for odd surface geometry. With dedicated fixtures, we can pop from job to job (several hundred active programs) in seconds and use iterated base alignments. Speed and heft are key to supporting a machine shop, metrology lab, pattern shop, and two foundries.

Also, we have a 3D printer for prototyping parts, making fixture pieces, robot parts, mold parts, and pen holders. Yep, pen holders... see attached.

TMI?

My turn for a question! How many use AutoRun for operators?

[[Ca...]]

Running a Contura G2. VAST XXT. Calypso 2017
We have a 2003 B&S Gage 2000 (which is for sale btw). We don't use this at all.

90% of my inspections are on bare granite, using various 1-2-3 and other gage blocks. We have the inspection arsenal kit, but I rarely use it. I DO have 1.5"x3/8 parallels bolted to the plate, so speed fixturing is pretty straightforward. I almost never remove these. The plate is M8 threaded.

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[[Ch...]]

I have Twin Accura II's both with a rotary table, one is an air bearing rotary table, both with Vast XT gold head. I also have a duramax on the production floor. I actually have two M12 plates that we use. It might seem, and actualy is, excessive; However, I can assure you that my fixtures are not going anywhere. That being said, I measure a lot of full assemblies that can have some weight to them. I design dedicated fixtures for my parts, 100's of active programs, and most of the fixtures are either clear anodized aluminum, Steel, or lately they've been 3d Printed. Barely visible in this picture are the 3d printed probe holders that Roberto designed. I do ton's of R&D type work too and a lot of fixturing consist of 123 blocks and whatever else I can find to mount something.

[[Mi...]]

Contura Select 10/12/6
Vast XT Gold
Full size Rayco plate w/1/4-20 Magnetic Clamping Kit

Accura 16/42/10
Vast Gold
3' X 2' Rayco plate in X-Y 0 Corner for small parts w/1/4-20 Magnetic Clamping kit.
Larger parts use parallel and fixtures fastened with M12 studs in granite table.
Larger parts can weigh up to 8600lbs so a 5 ton bridge crane to load.

[[Cl...]]

Three Contura G2's, two have XXT/RDS, one has VAST GOLD. Three O-inspects, one with rotary/camera/CFS/tactile, two with just camera/tactile. The picture shows how we stage parts, using a Schunk pneumatic pallet system. I designed a "tower" with interchangeable Delran fixture blocks dedicated to specific parts.

[[Ch...]]

So apparently I don't know how to post a picture.

[[Da...]]

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Mine won't post either, Says the boards attachment quota has been reached ............HUH????????

[[Ch...]]

same here. So does that mean you have to post pictures early or not at all? Or as they say in West Lafayette "Go Ugly Early"

[[Cl...]]

I took me a few minutes to figure how to add the picture. 🙂

[[Ca...]]

I got that message at first. After reducing the file size, it posted fine.

[[Da...]]

So that went thru at 2.55 KB

[[je...]]

1 Prismo Vast Head Calypso 5.6 Free Form and Curve
1 Contura Vast xt Calypso 5.6 Curve
1 Eclipse Renishaw PH10T Tp20

All of our machines have 24"x24" Rayco plates attached.

[[Ri...]]

I'm changing the thread title because I am a very small business. The title now is "CMM Setups I would like to have". My dream machine is a 2005-2009 Prismo Super Acc 1000/1200/900 with imbedded Rotary Table. I would have VAST Gold head. I would have a good relationship with a small, machine shop nearby with the capability of cutting titanium. I would have a "large-ish" Kennedy roller cabinet for styli, extensions, adaptor plates. And I would definitely have a nice big slab of Starrett Crystal Pink granite.