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yeah... I am trying to talk them out of this. It makes no sense to do it this way. I have had very and I do mean very little success with recalling curves. Was told 2025 fixed a bunch of the issues, but does help me if management does not get the software.

Comment deleted cause I didnt read your full post. 🤷‍♂️

I am a yuge FreeForm fan. I put that shlt on everything. 😁

If you do a lot of surface profiles, I would definitely get the FreeForm option. In my experience, pretty much everything is doable without it, but it saves a lot of time for evaluations that cover multiple features.

You should make a blank curve, then go to point manipulation and add nominals from existing curves. Then swap points, invert direction and other things if needed. If you want to recalculate, then both curves has to be with removed actuals ( it will recalculate with nominals ).

It would take a lot of time, but perhaps it would be possible with python script. I got only to a point where it was generating measured points from selected section. I am not sure if you can modify mesh points directly.

Curve is created from "Recall Points" with recalculation. At first I had wrong numbering, but I created these curves once again from scratches and by default now the have sequential numbers.

How did you created this connected curve? If you recalled measured points with recalculation with actual measured points, then nominals are rewritten according to actual data. Also look if you don't have bad curve spline. Nominal points may have wrong numbering ( last point from 1st curve is not next to 1 point from 2nd curve ) Or send pictures or detail about those curve and their settings.

I`ve created 2 3d Curves. Both of them have pretty nice results. Then I`ve created new 3D Curve which is created from these two and I got result which is far from what is suppose to be. - Connected - Separate I`ve tried Recall Points, Connection and it doesn`t work. While I`m trying to check GD&T Line of profile Calypso is not giving me any result from connected Curve, while value for both (separated) is less than 0.02mm. Any hint why is that?

No, it's not a problem. I done it like you say: cutting the part I didn't want to apply the offset then recombining it. But my question was if there was some way to applying the offset only on a selected part of an STL.

When you make changes in fixture or program, then just run start system on both machines manually - this will store it's position and then it will run where it should be.

You mean part 1 only with the basesystems and on the other machine with the startsystem .

Then do first part manually - next parts will have new position of start system - this will be stored inside that machine, so it's one time job. Otherwise you would need to explain much more. In machine view - even if you place same fixture on "same" place, then it's not on the same place - there can be differences in mm's.

I'm not sure if this is relevant, but would you get the same result if you outputted in millimeters instead of inches?

I only just received the license today and haven't been able to test much yet, as I first need to check our production environment. But the dark mode is hideous.

I agree on the b/w/g colors, but he last time I saw some even remotely "crazy" car colors was like 20 years ago.

Hello Martin, i normally dont want to use the palet system, but i know how it works with the paletsystem. Just dont like it because it is not the clean and correct way. the positions of the part on the adapter plate is the same but startsystem is different(cant change it there are too many programs on it). Which way do you have in mind have i overseen something?.

We had an issue that continuously pointed to the e-stop circuit. For years this problem would crop up; almost always when our ancient RT05 rotary would get bumped hard enough to trip the inertial e-stop. We really never used the physical e-stop switches. It was so frustrating getting helpdesk responses telling us to disengage the e-stops that were never engaged. The major issue was that the entire machine would become unusable as the drives would not turn on. We got the right tech in the last time. He traced his way to a couple wires in the e-stop circuit that would fail when they were jiggled to the right but pass when they were jiggled to the left. A wire harness buried up near the x guideway turned out to be the culprit after all those years. Good luck.

They just inverted the colors 😔

Hi Dina, I hope it's not to late to reach out to you. Please send your resume to me on my email cvillanueva@volantproducts.ca

Thank you so much Richard! This is exactly what I was looking for!

I may not know exactly what is possible without FF, but i know you can use 2D and 3D curves to evaluate line profile. With FF you can create surface feature and do scan paths on selected faces of a model. Also you can recall all measured points into this feature and select which faces should be evaluated. In other words - curves has nominals inside them - FF is using model for calculations. We were told ( forged parts ) we absolutelly need curves and ff.

We're going to be investing in some Curve licenses and got offered a Curve/FF bundle option. What's the difference between Curve and FreeForm? For some context, we have one Curve license now that we've been utilizing more in recent months. We're also considering a CMM outfitted with a LineScan for surface profile inspections.

@BlueSky Well i still don't know what is going on. here are some thoughts 1) it is possible that the algorithm for drawing that graphic is just not very good. Maybe they didn't give it as much attention as we like to think they did when the wrote it. 2) Does the nominal on the feature match the nominal on the dimension? 3) I checked a few reports and had the graphic look exactly like I would expect it to look, so thought 1 seems less likely. 4) Is there something in the tolerance setting or fit algorithm that is a little odd? 5) I don't think I have any good ideas as to why this is happening and would like to know when you find the answer.

Wonder if its anything like what they do with automobiles. if you notice they will change between crazy colors and back to black,white, gray, etc.