Abstract
A history of contact scanning and where it had reached by 2002 – from direct computer control in the late 1970s and the arrival of the Leitz PMM analog probe head in North America in 1980, when scanning was hardware rather than firmware controlled, clock speeds reached 12 Hz and 5 mm/sec counted as fast.
Cite this paper
Anilma Freire, John Horwell. Presented at the Coordinate Metrology Systems Conference 2002, Providence, Rhode Island, July 16-18, 2002. Coordinate Metrology Society, reference CMS-2002-007.