Design and Applications of Coordinate Measuring Machines

• Main Author: Kuang-Chao Fan (Ed.) (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 2016
• Subjects: History of engineering & technology; error compensation; measuring path; contact or noncontact probe; micro/nano-CMM; coordinate measuring machine; structural design; free-form measurement
• Online Access: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

Coordinate measuring machines (CMMs) have been conventionally used in industry for 3-dimensional and form-error measurements of macro parts for many years. Ever since the first CMM, developed by Ferranti Co. in the late 1950s, they have been regarded as versatile measuring equipment, yet many CMMs o...