Faro Arm

Contact Faro. You may also want somebody to review your measurement technique in using this instrument. It is easy to work too fast, lean on a reference or not actually measure the same point twice in so many ways that only a person witnessing your technique can help you.

Maybe you should be using checking balls and not tooling balls for measurements.

Do your "tooling" balls have a reference shoulder.

And, again, did you contact the supplier?

Are you using the ball to calibrate, or the point method? I find the point method far more repeatable, and more accurate, using our old Faro Silver arm. When measuring the tooling balls, are you measuring them as a sphere or just a circle? Might be time to cough up some $$ for a CMM.

Ian

I had a CMM, but the new parts that I need to measure would not fit on it. I did recieve an update from Solid works and it has helped.

Donovan,

What size tooling ball are you actually using? Do you know if you are supposed to be using the center of the ball or the center of the top of the busing that it fits in?

Give us a call if you need additional assistance, we work on similar fixtures when we provide measurement services and build custom probes for Faro Arms that need to be calibrated. www.metrologyworks.com or 816-650-2266.

Thanks,

MetrologyWorks