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Portable coordinate measurement.


Faro Faro, town, Portugal
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 Technologies Inc. recently announced the release of its CAM2 Measure 4.0 portable coordinate measure machine. The unit features 250 improvements over previous CAM2 models. Probe calibration has been enhanced for improved accuracy and data, and cross-section measuring now automatically compares a stream of data to the CAD surface. The Faro Laser Tracker A device which locks on to the reflected energy from a laser marked/designated target and defines the direction of the target relative to itself.  measurements can have greater angular repeatability in a variety of positions, and the data can be copied and pasted into tertiary programs (such as Microsoft Excel (tool) Microsoft Excel - A spreadsheet program from Microsoft, part of their Microsoft Office suite of productivity tools for Microsoft Windows and Macintosh. Excel is probably the most widely used spreadsheet in the world.

Latest version: Excel 97, as of 1997-01-14.
 and Notepad The text editor that comes with Windows. It is a very elementary utility, but gets the job done most of the time. See text editor and WordPad.

(text, tool) Notepad - The very basic text editor supplied with Microsoft Windows.
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Title Annotation:Metalcasting Supplies
Publication:Modern Casting
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Date:Jul 1, 2004
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