FARO CAM2

FARO CAM2 software for measuring prismatic shapes. It is used by tube fabrication customers on FARO arms along with VTube-LASER to measure components around tube shapes.

Customers measure tube shapes quickly with VTube-LASER with the laser scanner, then output parametric tube data to CAM2.

This version of CAM2 software released in 2011 (See FARO news release).

CAM2 Measure 10 and VTube-LASER Working Together

Exporting from VTube to CAM2 Files

Since year 2010, FARO has started selling VTube-LASER as their primary tube measuring software package. (FARO is the exclusive distributor for VTube-LASER in North and South America.)

VTube-LASER exports CAM2 Measure 10 parametric tube files for measuring brackets and components around the tube. Both the MASTER and the MEASURED tube shapes can be exported in the FILE tab sub-menus for each tube centerline.

These screen images show the VTube-LASER demo tube being transferred to CAM2 from VTube.

Importing to CAM2

Use the Import/Export option in the File pulldown menu to import the CAM2 file that VTube builds.

The tube shapes can be imported into CAM2 as NOMINAL (VTube MASTER), or ACTUAL (VTube MEASURED). When importing actual or measured, it is possible to quickly scan a tube with VTube, then continue with measuring components around the tube in CAM2. The method is to leave the tube in the same location when measuring in two programs. The correct position in space relative to the base of the arm is then transferred into CAM2 Measure 10.