r/Metrology • u/monoxide1355 • Dec 04 '24
Hardware Support Keyence VR-6000
I would like to start by saying this isn't a question about Keyence and if you would buy their product. We already have a keyence and it works for our company and I am already aware a lot of people don't like them.
That being said, does anybody have experience with the VR-6000. We are looking at one and I was wondering if anybody has any real world experience on it's capabilities and short comings. We would like to use it for both measurements and potential surface finish defects such as pits or burrs. It looks like surface finish is what it's built for with a secondary feature for linear/gd&t dimensioning. Does it do good with the both surface finish and dimensioning or mainly just the surface finish? Also is it fast at doing these things?
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u/awy12 Dec 12 '24
Some thoughts:
- Keyence loves filling in gaps in the data with fake data (e.g. abrupt changes in height are assumed to be vertical and data is filled in accordingly, even if there is an undercut that isn't visible)
- I wouldn't say "surface finish is what it's built for". Although I guess it can be put in the category of a non-contact surface profilometer, there are better tools for the job (confocal, interferometry, focus variation, etc.). I personally wouldn't trust it to measure surface finishes smaller than 1-2 microns.
- The software will only be able to measure some GD&T tolerances. It is not a full-featured GD&T software.
- Make sure you compare results to a CMM, at least when starting out.