MapperMapper is an advanced software tool that enables calibration of all Coordinate Measuring Machines (CMMs) without relying on the OEM’s software calibration program.
Mapper is compatible with leading controller maps, including:
– Hexagon (FB2, B3C, DC, RC)
– Mitutoyo (UC100, UC200, UC400, UC480)
– Renishaw (UCC)
– Zeiss (C99)
Mapper supports PC based maps, including:
– Wenzel
– LK
– Zeiss
Mapper supports 6, 21 and up to 34 parameters and helps with calculating new linearity and squareness values, based on the new collected compensation values.
Our Mapper can be rented for any period of your choice. Just choose from the predefined plans below.
Test our Mapper and see how it can access and update error maps. You are more than welcome to download and install our 30 days free trial version, allowing you to read all supported error maps, and edit them in the Mapper Editor.
Just set the type of trial version you want:
Mapper supports all Mitutoyo automatic CMMs and controllers (UC200, UC400), all DEA and B&S (Hexagon) controllers (FB2, B3C, DC, RC1), Zeiss (C99), Wenzel and LK.
Mapper currently does not support old Zeiss controllers (C98), Sheffield maps, Coord3, and Metrolog, as well as manual CMMs.
Generally, no. Mapper is installed on the calibrator PC and does not require any special hardware. If the controller requires specific communication connector (like GPIB, UCcom or RS232), then the PC on which Mapper is installed, needs to include the relevant communication boards to support these connections (e.g. PCI board for UCcom).
Yes. Mapper provides a special app, called ‘XM-Comp’, which can drive almost all CMM models and collect the data, using Renishaw XL-80 laser tracker. Mapper will support API’s XD laser as well soon.
XM-Comp GUI does not support compensation value collection using step-gauges or KOBA gauges.
XM-Comp is not part of the license this software provides. To use XM-Comp, please contact us.
Note! in most cases the calibrator uses a part program that the client can provide him with, to drive the machine and generate the compensation values.
If the calibrators want to drive a CMM with their own program, written in their own CMM client, they can use our Mediator software to do so.
Yes. It is recommended to create a backup of the retrieved map, before updating it. Simply create a copy of the imported file, so in case the map you have updated and exported back to the controller, or placed in the relevant PC directory, does not work – you can always export the backup map you created on your PC.
Mapper creates an automatic backup of the original map in Hexagon’s DC controllers. Thus, after you have updated the new map in the controller, in the event that the controller locks down for some reason, and the CMM does not respond anymore, you can contact us and we will open the controller for you to restore the backup map that was saved on the controller.
We provide online support for Mapper. Please contact us by email and ask for online support. Our support team will use TeamViewer to connect to your PC and help you in real time.
Mapper license expires on the last day of the rental period, by midnight. In some cases, the license might still work after midnight, but it will expire during the next day.
Mapper does not violate any IP. It simply gives you access to CMM’s error maps and builds an additional functionality on top of it. Mapper is already used by many CMM calibration companies and retrofitters.
The Mapper trial version provides you with the ability to import any error-map from the supported CMMs, store them on your PC and edit/update them on the Mapper editor application.
The trial does not include the ability to save the updated map back on the controller. To do this you will need select one of our packages and rent a license.