New Aviation company Coming to town

[bw_bob]

There will be a new aviation company coming to town & I know they will have B&S machines with Blade software. My question is how much different is blade to the demon. Any help would be greatly appriciated.........

[Pat Ahern]

Please take this info with a grain of salt, as I just finished 2 days of Blade training at B&S in Huntersville, NC yesterday. While I already had the Blade softwares on my cmm, I would not have been able to run it without the "extras" I was giving during my one-on-one training, even if I knew how. While Blade and PCDMIS go together, they are also very separate from each other. The alignment and scanning is done with PCDMIS, but all the dimensioning, tolerancing, airfoil best-fit methodology, etc. is done outside of PCDMIS. IMHO, training is 100% required. You could probably teach yourself how to do it, but without the "extras", and knowing which methodologies (there are a few of them) meets your B/P and specs, I don't see how you could satisfy your customers requirements. Good luck (to both of us).

[bw_bob]

Thanks for the reply Pat...I would not even consider trying to train myself. I was just trying to get an idea how much difference....Do you use the demon & do you think you will like using blade.....

[Pat Ahern]

I've worked in aerospace and Industrial Gas Turbine (IGT) layout/cmm for 15+ years, working with customers like Pratt & Whitney, GE, Honeywell, Siemens, Westinghouse. I've only been using PCDMIS for 5 months, but have 10 years on Sheffield MeasureMax. I've used a few airfoil softwares in the past, mostly in-house (outhouse really) created stuff that would work OK, but not really satisfy the customers B/P (spec) methodology.
With Blade, I liked what I saw a lot. You get the accuracy and repeatability of the cmm, with a fast, user friendly analisys software (that has the major customers' methodologies built in). Plus the operator interface (not sure if that the correct term) is simple too, in case you have separate programmers and operators. You could possibly program in PCDMIS to do what Blade is doing, but why write code when you can just check off a parameter in Blade (over simplified of course). I've scanned a couple of simple airfoil sections and produced some profiles to datums in PCDMIS (without Blade), but many B/Ps allow for displacement and twist prior to checking profile (the B/P I had was simply profile to existing datums, no twist, no displacement). Blade can handle that. But I have no idea how to program something like that in PCDMIS, or any software for that matter. IMHO, if you're going to inspect airfoils, use Blade. Especially if your customer is already uses it. Hope this helps.

[Goodluck]

I'm getting this strange compulsion to buy WoW Gold whatever that is. It says Gold so how bad can WoW Gold be? There also used to be a strip club near where I lived that was called Solid Gold. I hope WoW Gold is kinda like that.

[bw_bob]

I'm getting this strange compulsion to buy WoW Gold whatever that is. It says Gold so how bad can WoW Gold be? There also used to be a strip club near where I lived that was called Solid Gold. I hope WoW Gold is kinda like that.


Tell me about it....That F U C K I N scumbag hijacked my thread....and with a better topic then mine.

[cmmguy]

Tell me about it....That F U C K I N scumbag hijacked my thread....and with a better topic then mine.

It appears to be a gang-bang of sorts there bob... a real twofer. Word must be getting around about how easy you are.