... with new measurement and reporting capability

Renishaw, the world’s leading supplier of PC-based measurement software for CNC machine tools, is releasing a new version of its Renishaw OMV Pro software, a powerful package that works with touch probes to give advanced on-machine part verification and machine simulation capabilities. Now supporting Microsoft® Windows Vista®, Renishaw OMV Pro 2.02 adds more advanced co-ordinate measuring machine (CMM) style capability with an extended range of geometric dimensioning and tolerancing (GD&T) functionality, plus the ability to work with multiple alignments in a single program, useful for users of complex multi-axis machine tools.

Like the more basic Renishaw OMV software, the new Renishaw OMV Pro 2.02 allows users of machine tool touch probes to quickly verify the accuracy of free-form and prismatic parts, without ever moving the part from the machine-bed. Both versions of the software have an intuitive graphical interface, a crystal-clear reporting format that makes the software accessible to shop-floor staff, and by enabling users to see exactly what was cut, allow corrections to be made before the part is moved.

Geometric dimensioning and tolerancing (GD&T)
A key difference between Renishaw OMV and Renishaw OMV Pro is the latter’s ability to handle the measurement of geometric components with its geometric dimensioning and tolerancing (GD&T) wizard. This innovative function helps users through the process of creating standardised report elements based on internationally-recognised symbols. Users can fully compare part measurement results taken on the machine to the manufacturing drawing, before removing the part from the machine and submitting it to a full off-machine inspection process. Within the new version GD&T functionality now includes perpendicularity, parallelism, angularity, linear dimension, surface profile, line profile and concentricity.