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In dem Fenster bin ich gestern auch schon gelandet, und mir wurden auch die Pro-Lizenzen angezeigt. Nur leider hat sich die Software nicht weiter drum gekümmert. Sprich, die Pro-Funktionen waren nach wie vor nicht verfügbar (hier konkret das Anlegen neuer Stufen beim Import von Ist-Netzen) Der Hintergrund der Frage ist, daß wir seit der Einführung neuer Sicherheitsfeatures sehr lange Ladezeiten für Projekte über die Netzwerkverbindung haben. Da wir Dongles nach Bedarf zwischen verschiedenen Rechnern tauschen, merkt man oft erst nach dem Laden eines Projekts, daß jemand den Dongle entfernt hat und die Software nur als freie Version gestartet wurde. Also Software wieder beenden, Dongle dran, neu starten, Projekt nochmal laden, doppelte Wartezeit. Das würde ich gern ändern.

Hi Martine , many thanks ,all variants work, good job 👍. I try to make a new one from actual template( see below). Have a good one

OK, so you can use existing template, just edit it, double click on text in column where you wont to show it. At the end of a text there is "show_unit = false" and change that to "true" For deviation column it's a bit tricky to find correct text

If you send the .act (here or as personal message) I can have a look into it.

I would imagine a standard Pallet Alignment would take care of this for you, but here is the Knowledge Base article for what you are looking for. https://portal.zeiss.com/knowledge-base?id=444321

Could you please share a photo or a sketch of your setup? I suspect the solution might be very simple.

Martin, Thank you for the answer. Is there any way you can give me a detailed account on how you stored all your part alignments? The parts we run are all over the place. One part may be super short, another bent to the right. What we're trying to achieve is a manual alignment on each part in the program before we switch to autorun (so that way the probe doesn't crash performing the base alignment on the next part). Is this still achievable?

For this we ended up with storing part alignment in all positions ( storing with name "p1", "p2", ... ) and then linking those alignments with position of pallet. Unfortunatelly this is the only way - you can not define pallete anything other than X and Y

Hello all, Imagine there are the 5 exact same parts on a pallet with the exception of their heights. Does anyone know how I would be able to take an alignment for each one so that the machine will know where to go without any input? I understand there is the "LOS position" feature in autorun, but I am unsure how to set it up. Any help will be appreciated.

Love that idea! It won't change the inputs the operator has to make but will add a timestamp to the file whenever it is saved to prevent the overwrite issue I am seeing. Thank you for this!

I second Thomas's suggestion. If you need any information on setting up the name for your output files, take a look at this KB article: https://portal.zeiss.com/knowledge-base?id=587888

I would set up variable file naming and probably use getRecHdForFil("time") to add a timestamp to the file name. That way it should be unique even if the same run number is used.

The documents provided by Kyle Johnson are good trouble shooting article's. If you're have trouble with the drives shutting off when moving the Z-axis on an older Duramax, I'll add that you do not have to take the 16 screws out to remove the Z axis cover to access the res-set switch on the Z drive motor. If you look closely with a flashlight, you can see the re-set switch and re-set it with a pencil or something skinny and long enough to reach it thru the vents at the top on the back side of the cover. I reset one yesterday and it's still running fine:-).

Hi all, I wanted to know if anyone has a solution for a problem I am seeing. Example: We run parts and have the PDF Files setup to autosave at the completion of a run. Say I run "Part A_Run 1" and it fails. I modify it and need to run it again, it should be "Part A_Run 2" and if so, everything works fine. What is happening is that operators aren't remembering to correctly rename the Run number so the might run another "Part A_Run 1" and it overwrites the file in the directory we have it going to without asking something like "Are you sure you want to save over this?" or "There is already something named this...blah blah" Is there a way to prevent file over-writes so that we don't have this happen? Lost a few files today because of this issue and I don't have an easy fix for it without telling the operators you really need to pay attention to the Run number to ensure you aren't repeating something already in the folder. Thanks

Hello, Saw this answered in another thread. Glad that it seems to be working for you now.

Very true. I think i got into the habit of using this method since plane with offset wasn't working for providing a profile results with stock removed.

Much easier to just create a Construct - Plane with Offset if this is what you are doing.

Has anyone with a Surfcom had issues with the detector failing and had to deal with the lengthy lead time to get a replacement part? The lead time we were told is 2-6months for a replacement part which seems pretty crazy to me but Zeiss said that is normal for that part. If you have run into this issue, can you provide insight on what your company did to help bridge the gap and inspect parts while having a machine down for months? We are a prototype heavy company and use it daily for inspecting tight tolerance threads, radii, and chamfers.

I think this was said above but heres some pictures. Copy your Z plane, make it a theoretical. use GetNominal formula for the nominals & GetActual for the actual Create and alignment same as your base alignment but use the theoretical plane with your offset.

Hi! I need to measure a small 0.92mm plastic hole using 143 points. What filter settings should I apply? Thank you!

I did a very small amount of opendmis, but besides that everything else i have used for cmm is calypso

I know you can do this all in Calypso, especially using PCM; But that's not what I do. I highly recommend using the .chr and .hdr table files. And then using a Python script or something. The .chr and .hdr tables files have everything you need in it already. Python could combine as many files as you want into the same file. Don't be intimidated writing Python scripts. With AI, everyone is a programmer now.

I can try tommorow, but i think you can edit that template to show unit assigned.

I am trying to export the data from multiple CMM runs into the same excel file. I am able to export the data from one run into the default Calypso excel sheet, but I want to have more data than the default sheet has. I would like to include columns to list the dimension type (linear distance, diameter, etc) and mold cavity number. I have an excel template that we currently fill out manually, but I want to automate the process. On our printouts, the dimension type for each characteristic and the cavity number are reported, so I figure that Calypso has some way of exporting this data to an excel sheet. Any help is appreciated, thanks!

Hi team , I want to create label with clamping force with unit(N) , but the unit of force is not visible in the result. If i rewrite in the template to newtons then i have everything in newtons🫣 Is that even possible? Many thanks for any advice.