(Hexagon Metrology: North Kingstown, RI) -- Hexagon Metrology announced a new generation of external laser scanner for use with the new ROMER Absolute Arm. The Hexagon Probe Laser 20.8 (HP-L-20.8) replaces the successful CMS108 laser scanner, offering improved performance even on complex surfaces and workpieces made of the most challenging shiny materials such as machined, cast, stamped, or forged metals, plastics, and carbon fiber. Hexagon Metrology will demonstrate the HP-L-20.8 in Booth 5202 at the International Manufacturing Technology Show (IMTS 2014) at Chicago’s McCormick Place, Sept. 8–13, 2014.

By combining the HP-L-20.8 laser scanner and the new generation of ROMER Absolute Arms, launched in March 2014, Hexagon Metrology offers its customers a first-class portable coordinate measuring system with fully certified scanning system accuracy. The adjustable scanning width of the HP-L-20.8, with a line length of up to 230 mm and a scan rate of up to 150,000 points per second for high-speed 3D point cloud capturing, means surfaces can be captured more rapidly than ever before—no matter what the material. The HP-L-20.8 is the first laser scanner for the ROMER Absolute Arm to be certified to the new ISO 10360-8 standard.

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