>> >> Yep! Wilson machine bought a 50' x 4' CMM at a Boeing auction. Got it >> cheap and spent a million moving it and >> getting it set up again. And that was only a few miles. >Holy COW! a 50 FOOT CMM? There must only be 2 or 3 in the >entire US that big. (I can understand why Boeing would need >such a machine.)
50 foot at .0001 / Inch resolution would almost be at the limit for a 32 bit unsigned integer! I could see some really strange software bugs begin to show up. (Signed vs unsigned integers). Would a double precision float handle that? Yikes! 0xD693A400 - or something like that. Jim Combs ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
