Polyworks inspector for CMM

[Jespertech]

My company is looking into getting the Polyworks inspector software for our CMM, we're currently using mcosmos which I get is not the most user friendly interface at first but it is definitely a powerful package. My question is has anyone here used Polyworks and can offer some pros and cons that they have found? 

[nickbe10]

 

22 hours ago, Jespertech said:

My question is has anyone here used Polyworks and can offer some pros and cons that they have found? 

Have you tried the CMM forums?

[MATT Q]

We use polyworks with a large faro cmm.  It is an advanced software that we use for inspections and reverse engineering.  You can use it to probe features and scan with a laser also.  Like I said it is an advanced software so not the easiest to use but very effective for what we use it for.

[Jespertech]

23 hours ago, nickbe10 said:

 

Have you tried the CMM forums?

Yup, I got some good input.

The issue I have with some of the other forums is it seems to be a lot of commission based responders. 

I'm looking for more of an honest review from a hands on perspective. Which, in my experience, this site is the best for. 

[nickbe10]

1 hour ago, Jespertech said:

I'm looking for more of an honest review from a hands on perspective. Which, in my experience, this site is the best for. 

The only 2 cents worth of advice that I can give, as I have no direct hands on experience with CMM programming, is that all the best CMM programmers I know up here in airplane country use pc-dimus.

[crazy^millman]

Verisurf can program a CMM, not sure if it is can do it directly or if you would need a retrofit. Where it would be best to reach out to them.

[Rocketmachinist]

I have Polyworks. It really good and very powerful. They are a smaller company so they actually have customer support. Every time I called them a I got a guy picking up the phone right away. It was so nice to have customer service. We also have Calypso and CMM manager, which I never got a good chance to learn either. I got training for the faro arm to use Polyworks with the Laser Line Probe. It just so happened that the license usb can be swapped from machine to machine without any extra steps. So I started using it on one of the CMM's we have. Took a little bit of calibration of the machine def but I finally got it to work. If you have any other questions just let me know.