I've been talking with a few people here about wafer metrology, and I realized the workflow seems to vary a lot depending on whether you’re in production, R&D, or equipment development.

In high-volume production, it sounds like most of the analysis stays inside the metrology tool software.

But in R&D or development environments, people seem much more likely to export raw data and use their own scripts, Excel, JMP, or other post-processing tools.

So I’m curious:

How often do you actually take raw 2D/3D measurement data out of the equipment software and analyze it yourself?

And when you do, what are you usually trying to calculate or visualize that the original software doesn’t handle well?

Mostly interested in real workflows rather than specific software recommendations.

I've been in the Aerospace industry for roughly 15 years. Through a series of events I was introduced to Jig & Fixture builder with laser trackers & standard optics back when I was 21 and now work in a group that utilizes similar measurement instruments for production inspection.

Lately I've been thinking of using one of the App Builder applications to create one that would tailor to other users to help with situations we commonly experience.

I wanted to get feedback from others in the field to ask what you would want to see in an app like this?

Currently this is what I'd like to include:

Providing information and resources to your job-related questions with...

- The answer

- The formula

- Visual diagrams

- Standards references (ANSI or ISO, DRF rules, etc...)

- Saved company procedures

I'm open to all input. I won't take offense if you think this is useless as well. I just have a hard top accepting that if it isn't broken then it shouldn't be fixed lol.

Howdy everyone. I work at a company that's native software for laser tracker data capture and inspection is Verisurf. We're currently using 2025 and know that we are significantly underutilizing all of its capabilities when it comes to the MBD and GD&T analysis features.

Lately I've been trying to help our small team on a specific program to format and use a PDF or PowerPoint template that confirms with a report format that we normally use. The problem is that it seems like it's limited in adaptability for customizing these templates.

Have any of you made a more customized version of either format? TIA!