The developers claim Verisurf Automate will make users more productive with a 3D environment that includes an object-oriented operations manager, CAD feature extraction, and solid model associativity.

Portable CMMs and software make reverse engineering useful for modifications, new designs, and duplicating parts without drawings. If you can measure an object, you can reverse engineer it. The key is ...

In job shops, throughput often lives in the steps between cuts: tooling, offsets, refixturing, programming and training. The March issue features practical ways shops are cutting setup time and ...

The G-Scan's 6-axis arm and rotary laser scanner tackles inspection of a variety of parts and assemblies. A special mounting system allows the G-Scan and a contact probe to work together on a portable ...