gkoenig
Titanium
- Joined
- Mar 31, 2013
- Location
- Portland, OR
Do you have any experience with the CMM module in NX?
I honestly have no experience with the CMM side of things.
Probably the biggest single advantage of NX is that all of the more advanced applications run under the same roof as the CAD, and the CMM demos are no different. All your tools for setting up and constraining geometry are the same you use every day in the CAD environment; you aren't stuck with some outdated tinker toy CAD that gets tacked onto standalone CMM software. of course, any dimension or tolerance you specify in the CAD side (drawings, PMI, MBD) get shot right over to the CMM side.
Being not a CMM guy, the part of the demo that sold me was that the integration allows for basically no programming. If you put PMI on your part for all the critical stuff, all you need to do on the CMM side is place it in your machine simulation model, give the system the initial alignment point, and NX does all the rest of it for you. IDK if that is how Calypso or the other CMM packages work, but it is exactly the same tech I am using for the camera stuff outlined above, so I can almost promise you it works as advertised.