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Jim Father 
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This is "day job" related, a lot of people have been requesting this from a post I made on a CNC machine forum. The software was free, and distributed on the Immersion web site. Immersion has taken a different course with their business and discontinued the microscribe, there is a couple places you can get it on the internet still but they want money for what was free software!! This isn't right. I found the free version after a couple days searching and here it is for anyone that has a Microscribe to download: Immersion Microscribe Utility Software 4.0.0.12 Copyright (c) 2002, Immersion Corporation All Rights Reserved Attachment: MUS.zip (Downloaded 44 times) |
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wingnutter Forever Learning 
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Eh, what does Microscribe Utility Software do Jim? |
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Jim Father
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Well it interfaces the Microscribe tool which is basically a portable CMM with several popular CAD softwares. I use Mastercam at work to draw parts to be machined on CNC's. I can reverse engineer parts with the Microscribe and alter/scale them then machine them on a CNC lathe or mill. Here is a microscribe youtube vid I found. |
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Mag License Holder 
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Well it interfaces the Microscribe tool which is basically a portable CMM with several popular CAD softwares. ROFL to a numpty like me that sounds like a foreign language |
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tanygaer CentOS Guru 
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Did something similar a while back, with laser mapping buildings, that was DXF and autocad... |
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wingnutter Forever Learning
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Thanks Jim. |
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erreiptol Member
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Thanks + 1 |
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Jim Father
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Hi, thanks for stopping by.  |
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tomleskovan Member
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Thanks for the info. I agree its hard to pay for something that was free.. Your a great person to do this for all of us. Thanks again... Tom |
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tomleskovan Member
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got a new version for anyone who wants it. |
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Jim Father
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If you want go ahead and post it here, I'll key it up at work and if it works OK we can post both versions. Some of the newer stuff doesn't play well with older versions of windows. |
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bouttime Brain Salad Surgeon 
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that looks really interesting, how much does the stylus cost? i've been interested in finding an affordable way of transforming real objects into 3d wire meshes. |
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Jim Father
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About 1200 on e-bay when you can find one. |
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m4designs Member
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need help getting a microscribe 3dx to connect to xp. |
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wingnutter Forever Learning
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I seen a new product on Youtube early this year that used a webcam to scan in a model house in 3D, including the texture. It was early stages and hadn't developed into a product to buy yet. |
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Jim Father
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There are several laser scan products on the market, they can produce full 3D solid models or surfaces in a very small amount of time. They are not very accurate by comparison. The key with higher end digitizing is accuracy. Products like Romer and Faro have multi axis arms that can split a thousandth. The microscribe is a medium end. If you can stand plus or minus five thousandths of an inch they work great. Need more... get a romer or Faro. |
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Jim Father
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m4designs wrote: need help getting a microscribe 3dx to connect to xp. What cad program are you linking it to? AND XP 32 or 64 bit? All microscribes come with USB which is the easiest way to connect. I have no idea what condition your MS is in, sometimes they are sold after broken. |
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m4designs Member
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This is a one owner who brought it to me to get working, has not been used in a couple of years. I am tring to connect to a dell computer with XP home, 1 gig ram, pentium 4. Think it is a port problem, I have a 9 pin serial port on the back. when I try the MUS it says it cant find port 1, then when i try to change it to another port it says it cant find that port. several times after tring to connect, the box with the port and buad rate settings will flash and the computer will beep over and over again, have to shut down to stop. Thinking it is some kind of port conflect, how ever, it could be a bad scribe. So far I am just tring to get it to show X Y Z numbers on MUS screen. will be using BobCad though. Thanks for the reply by the way. Rick Last edited on Thu Sep 2nd, 2010 12:35 pm by m4designs |
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Jim Father
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Make sure the port is enabled in the bios. Some older computers that have phone modems use the com1 for the modem, check for that and disable the phone modem if you can. Com 1 is OK but it works better if you buy a cheap USB cable and use that. It takes the same USB cable as most printers (the small "D" shape on the other end) I don't know if MUS supports Bob cad, I'm using Mastercam and I know it does Rhino also along with a half dozen others. I would guess com ports are mis configured in the bios. Jim |
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m4designs Member
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I'll look at the bios, have not been there yet, this scribe is a 3dx that only has serial. |
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m4designs Member
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Checked the bios, changed the serial from auto to com1 but did not help. no modem installed at least in hardware manager. What are the data bits, parity, stop bits, flow control settings? Are FIFO Buffers used? Rick |
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