Abstract
Compensation challenges grow with machine size, and Electroimpact was building more and larger CNC machines. Rob Flynn describes the methods that came out of that: volumetric compensation, a custom software solver, API's Active Target, a series of laser tracker triggering tools, and finally a custom software link between the CNC and the tracker PC. The result cuts station time for taking measurements, eliminates many blunder points, adds flexibility, reduces post-measurement analysis and brings the overall engineering time down.
Also published as CMSJ-06-2-03, The Journal of the CMSC, Volume 6, Number 2 (Autumn 2011).
Cite this paper
Rob Flynn. Electroimpact, Inc., Mukilteo, WA. Presented at the Coordinate Metrology Systems Conference 2011, Phoenix, Arizona, July 25-29, 2011. Coordinate Metrology Society, reference CMS-2011-005.