The end of PCM

[[Da...]]

Someone has any info about the new Zeiss Inspect CMM 2025?

Is there python or PCM inside?

https://www.zeiss.com/metrology/en/soft ... spect.html

[[No...]]

Calypso with a new name? 🤣 🤣

I hope it's the other way round. Would be cool to have Python available at the CMM.

[[Je...]]

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Dane, my understanding is that Zeiss Inspect utilizes Python for parameterized programming. I see this as a win, because Python is powerful, modern programming language and is widely adopted.

Keep in mind that Calypso is not being replaced by Zeiss Inspect. You will still have full access to PCM. I believe the Calypso marketshare, functionality and user base is strong enough to fend off a would-be coupe from corporate not-metrologists who would seek to usurp it.

Both Zeiss Inspect and Calypso have unique strengths that advocate for a dual-platform software suite. In fact, I would be interested to see Zeiss place both products side-by-side in a software suite without forcing the customer to pay a premium for having both. Let the customers decide which software meets their needs for tactile and non-tactile metrology.

Zeiss, I encourage you to provide both Calypso and Zeiss Inspect and then step back and listen intently. Seek to understand your customers and their needs. Work towards collaboration between the inherently distinct cultures of the GOM and Calypso personnel, and have them synergize the best of both.

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[[DW...]]

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I run Zeiss Inspect X-Ray 2023 Service Pack 4 and yes, it does have an add-on editor that uses Python. I have generated powerful custom scripts that allow me to handle large tedious tasks with ease.

I have written advanced PCM in Calypso. I have used PCM to fire Powershell scripts on networks to accomplish tasks outside of Calypso with data from within Calypso.

Having used both, the functionality of Python is much greater.

[[Je...]]

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Great thoughts Jeff.
I can confirm that CALYPSO isn't going anywhere and this is not a "rebranding". INSPECT and CALYPSO are very very different applications. ZEISS INSPECT CMM (and VMM) have not yet publicly released but will utilize CALYPSO to migrate/operate inspection plans. I haven't seen it yet myself but I plan to in the very near future. On the topic of having one license activate both (or similar BOGO deal), that would be up to Sales & Marketing but I wouldn't perch too strongly on that hill. As you said, each are very different softwares with very different strengths/design intent. Having them work in concert is going to be a significant improvement to our user base that utilizes both applications frequently.

PCM isn't going anywhere either. I personally would be excited to utilize Python in CALYPSO as well. I am not involved with development or product roadmap but there are no plans to incorporate Python in the near future to my knowledge.

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I was on the Zeiss Innovation Summit in Berlin two weeks ago and got a short demo of Zeiss Inspect on a Duramax. From what I could understand the idea of that software is to have it at absolute Easy-Mode. You just click on a surface and it measures it. According to the applications engineer you will have no control over stylus system selection, travel paths or measurement strategy. Everything is done automatically within the software.

Everyone with half a brain and a crayon will understand that this is not for advanced measurement tasks. More like the idea that Zeiss have marketed for Duramax for a long time. A replacement for hand measurement tools and gauges. No one can tell what the future holds but for now Zeiss Inspect tactile and Calypso is not to be seen as competitors.

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Thanks for sharing about seeing this intro at the summit in Berlin. I hope you had a great time there.

From what you described, my first impression was that Easy Mode sounds like Keyence marketing: "Just push a button and watch all your dreams come true!"

Yet as look into this launch... I see something truly unique, something that gets me excited, something that I have not seen from Zeiss before--at least not at this magnitude:

Accessibility and tiered product structure that dares to use the F-word. Free.

Instead of the long-standing, immovable notion that their software is superior and powerful but expensive and "is what it is," Zeiss appears willing to craft something more accessible by a wider audience. It seems like they did in fact learn things from the culture formerly known as GOM. Empower the user. Make it accessible. TRAIN the operator (without whom their metrology systems are no more than paperweights). Listen to customer needs.

I'm stoked to hear more about this. It's not even the end product that has me excited. It's the scent of a progressive mindset. It's growth.

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[[Da...]]

Thank you guys for nice replies.