HEXAGON Absolute Arm Drivers

Welcome to our HEXAGON RDS driver support page!

We include these HEXAGON RDS drivers on this page for the convenience of our VTube-LASER customers. Whether or not you are an Advanced Tubular VTube-LASER user, please feel free to download and use these drivers.

If you are not currently our customer and have support questions for RDS, then we recommend that you contact HEXAGON directly to get support for installing and using RDS. See the HEXAGON technical support page for details on how to get support from HEXAGON.

Also, we invite you to visit our VTube-LASER page to see how customers around the world measure tube shapes with HEXAGON arms.

Versions Tested with VTube-LASER

Tested versions: 4.2.1, 4.2.2, 4.2.3, 5.0, 5.1, 5.3, 5.4.1, 6.2. 6.2.1, 6.2.3, 6.3.0

Tested Arm Systems: ROMER 7 Series, HEXAGON Absolute Arm RA8 Series

HEXAGON RDS Clean Re-install

We discovered that the scanners could intermittently stop communicating with RDS in both of our test HEXAGON scan arms. This problem was occurring in both versions 5 and 6.

HEXAGON tech support shared a simple solution that seems to work well (see the instructions in the next section).

Follow the instructions in this PDF document to perform a clean re-install of RDS.

This means completely removing RDS, deleting certain folders, and then even deleting specific Windows registry settings related to ROMER. When that is complete, the install the new RDS driver.

Caution! Deleting items in the registry is an action that could stop Windows if used improperly. Please follow the document with care.

HEXAGON RDS 6.3.0

Download Driver 6.3.0 for HEXAGON Absolute Arms

This driver version was released March 20, 2023.

The quality filters for the AS1 have been improved
Better quality on scanning boundaries, resulting in more accurate feature calculation
With previous versions of RDS, in rare cases the scan data was missing scan lines; scanning performance has been improved to avoid such gaps
A bug that prevented users from scanning with an IP54 scanner AS1.1 on an Absolute Arm retrofitted with a wrist v2 has been fixed
Minor improvements in the RDS user interface

HEXAGON RDS 6.2.3

Download Driver 6.2.3 for HEXAGON Absolute Arms

This driver was released November 21, 2022.

HEXAGON RDS 6.2.1

Download Driver 6.2.1 for HEXAGON Absolute Arms

This driver was released May 17, 2022.

HEXAGON RDS 6.2

Download Driver 6.2 for HEXAGON Absolute Arms

This driver was released in March of 2022.

HEXAGON RDS 5.4.1

Download Driver 5.4.1 for ROMER Absolute Arms

HEXAGON RDS 5.3

Download Driver 5.3 for HEXAGON Absolute Arms

This driver is an updated version for the HEXAGON 8-series arms running with RS6 blue laser scanners released in July, 2019. It works with the RA8 with RS5 scanners and the ROMER 7-series arms also. Firmware updates for the RA8 to work with the new RS6 scanner are also required for arms that were sold before the RS6 was released.

HEXAGON RDS 5.1

Download Driver 5.1 for HEXAGON Absolute Arms

This driver is required for the HEXAGON 8-series arms released in August, 2018. It works with the ROMER 7-series arms also.

HEXAGON RDS 5.0

Download Driver 5.0 for ROMER Absolute Arms

This driver is required for the ROMER 8-series arms released in August, 2018. It works with the 7-series arms also.

ROMER RDS 4.2.3

Download Driver 4.2.3 for ROMER Absolute Arms

ROMER RDS 4.2.2

Download Driver 4.2.2 for ROMER Absolute Arms