Geomet Dec. 2007 Upgrade

Our Geomet programming staff focused much energy on two projects throughout 2007. These projects were the development of Geomet 501 which integrates full contact scanning capabilities and refinement of new features in the remainder of the Geomet family.

Geomet 501. Expanded on scanning technologies including the building of new tools to scan within a variety of shaped borders. Overhauled the Stylus Manager to reduce upload times and improved the handling of stylus specific motion parameters.

New features added during 2007 including:

• Ellipse.
• Graphic setting tool - globally controls the visible state of features.
• Reference sphere and surface plate graphic display.
• Updated Math Tool - calculations on distance results
• Radial Border Surface Scanning utilizing Pie or Parallel patterns.
• Outline following scanning tool.
• Circular run-out tool.
• 5-Axis rotary table support for Geomet 501.
• New Digital Readout

Additionally we have improved or expanded over 100 features. Many of these changes were customer requests!

Upgrade Q&A

The Windows 98 family of operating systems have reached the End of Service date by Microsoft. This means the developer tools used to create Geomet, no longer work in Windows 98 environments. For additional information, please refer to this article.

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Forecast for 2008

Scanning Technology

With the advances we made in 2007, we will be expanding our efforts toward  for Geomet 501 /  Renishaw UCC2 inspection tools. With industry utilizing the CMM to obtain more information during the inspection, it is paramount that the CMM deliver more data points to better define a feature. This can be accomplished through the use of scanning probes that deliver thousands of data points, even on the smallest features.

CAD Update

The GeoCAD product has been folded into the Geomet 301/501 product. Before its release, we will be adding a new process for PCS setups to reduce the opening of solid model file and its attachment to the PCS. Previously this was a lengthy process that required iterations and redundant calculations positioning the model in the Coordinate System (CS) space as the inspected part's CS.

We hope to have the CAD upgrade to Geomet 301/501 completed this upcoming year. Most important, we can ensure that our Geomet inspection programs remain backward compatible to the first Geomet for Windows release in 1995. Can your current software say that?

Related Procedures:

Upgrade Change List, Software Service Contracts,
Upgrading the Geomet Web Help Index, Geomet User Guide