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Multiple ways to skin this cat. I work with these all the time and can give you some tips. First off, There's better ways to get that OD than a cmm. Something like an OptiCline or a custom gage like we have. But if you have to get on a cmm there's a few things you can try. Like Richard said, you can make an alignment that is clocked to each blade. This is possible but kinda sucks too. Clock the alignment to a symmetry point made from points on either side. OR what I recommend is measuring multiple blades with curves. Then recall those individual curves into another curve. Then you can use a circle with Max Inscribed or Min Circumscribed to give you a diameter. Like this: We have a complex shaped curve, and the circle is just fitting around the outside for the OD.

With Curve - you can use the Maximum Coordinate, and isolate the axis, but you'd need for it to live inside of an alignment that is rotated to the blade.

I still have a few Sheffield CMM's running Calypso 2022, with a PH10T and TP200. Renishaw has a newer revision to the PH10T, now called PH10T Plus, which requires different controller box/s. I am trying to get the newer head to work. I do have the newer PHC10-3 Plus, with a PI 200-3 add in card, to go with the newer head. With the help of the company that services these machines, for calibartion and repair, I was able to get the correct dip switch settings. The problem is the machine will not home. It sees the CMM, and will give me the box to turn on drives and put in auto, if they aren't already. The problem is you hit ok for the box that tells you the head will go to A0 B0, and it does nothing. The machine just sits there, and eventually the screen will say homing, but still nothing moves. Zeiss doesn't support the NZDI interface anymore, so I am kind of on my own. I was hoping maybe someone here would have knowledge on the subject.

To clarify, I created 2d curves on the cross section around the tip of the blades, but don't know how to isolate the most radial distance on the curve in order to pull it into a circle.

I'm trying to apply a max material condition to the true position check of a cross-sectional circle. The true position references datum F, which is a cone feature, and has an original tolerance of 0.011". The circle has a diameter check with a tolerance of +/- 0.003". The issue I'm having is that I can select MMR, then either extracted or associated element, but there is no change to the calculation despite the diameter passing close to the center of tolerance. Also, I've noticed that I cannot select a "Dimension Element" when prompted to. I can select the option and it says to CTRL + Mouse 1 on the desired element, but this selection option doesn't actually work. Not sure what I might be missing here, but any help is appreciated.

Then i would advise to apply at least outliers on feature's used for perpendicularity ( datums and feature itself )

In that case, no I don't have any filters/outliers?

If you can - make lines and their intersections at least 3 times around a part - that should be sufficient.

On features. Features used in datums are evaluated as tangential element - so it's sensitive on outliers.

First you have to enter editing mode for report template ( right click on "Style" and select "Edit template" ) Now you can modify - after changes export this template into new or existing app

Not on the features themselves. Just to make sure I'm not confused about the question, you're speaking about the features and not the report correct?

@MeetLabo1 HDB Leslie, I've been down this path too. For the desktop PC to talk to the embedded PC in your X-ray machine, very specific processes need to be configured/running in the background and loaded in Windows registry. Before you do the following, please restart your desktop PC and see if that restores the processes required to communicate with the embedded PC. If that does not work, you will have to manually execute the executable (.exe) files yourself. It is not hard, but it is very poorly (if ever) documented from Zeiss. When you double click the executable files, it configures your desktop to talk to your X-ray, and makes changes to the Windows registry so that the processes fire automatically when the desktop PC restarts. In your file explorer, go to "C:\Program Files\Zeiss\INSPECT\YOUR VERSION YEAR\bin" Sort by Type. You will see some folders at the top, and then should see a bunch of files that end in .exe (make sure you enable file extensions are shown) Double click "TomCtServer.exe" The command prompt will pop open, let it execute fully (it will close when finished). Restart the desktop. Check if communication is restored. If not, go back to the above location, and double click: scanner_server.exe ZEISS_INSPECT_ACQServer.exe ZEISS_INSPECT_HardwareServer.exe ZEISS_INSPECT_MoveServer CTXrayRegistration If still no communication, there are a few more .exe files located in "C:\Program Files\Zeiss\INSPECT\YOUR VERSION YEAR\bin\xray_services" that we can try. Let me know if the above restores communication.

Did a quick sketch to see how calypso would work with it, looks like calypso thinks it would be a cone. you could use that surface as your X and Y origin and the intersection of that and the outer surface as your Z origin for your base alignment

Picture added in case my rambling didn’t make sense! This is how to part sits on the CMM.

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Hi everyone! I have an App that is migrated from a GOM-Skin. Someone has mistakenly overwritten the default title for some report pages with project-specific info. I'm struggling to change the default title back to "Untitled" and export that to the *.addon format. What I have tried: Under Apps->App-Editor->Edit App->select page in "report templates"->in Properties - Report Template change the default title back to "untitled" ->Finish App Exporting and Re-importing the .addon does not change it Can someone nudge me in the right direction? What am I missing?

Hi Leon, please see this thread: Basically, you switch the measurement series from "dependent" to "independent". Nanno

Hi, I think this is very basic but I can't seem to work it out on my own. I've transformed to halves of a scan into one but I now need to measure the two halves separately and cannot seem to workout how to delete the transformation without deleting one half of the scan is there any way to get around this? I'm on Zeiss Inspect 2025.

Thanks everybody, however.... I closed the program that day, opened another, and have now run 35 hours straight on multiple other programs without any recurrence of the issue though I've used the same stylus systems and adapter plates. Tonight I opened that program on another machine and had no issue. The workpiece is over 400 lbs and the setup is very rigid using a custom fixture bolted to the granite in four locations. Probe changes happen without issue and without any unusual sound. I bet I've done a couple hundred. I've qualified 85 systems in the intervening time as well. No failures. This probe head is a few months old. We've gotten pretty good at finding all instances of collisions, their locations, velocities, and probe scaling. There have been none over 10mm/s since the probe was installed. My techs all compliment me on my lab and my processes; I run a damn tight ship. I would hope a brand-new sensor with zero hard use would not already have given up, but I'll be watching for a repeat performance.

I have an impeller. Six helical blades tapering to the top. I need to find the diameter of the blades at the bottom and at the top. I created a cross section thru the bottom to start. How do find that diameter? I have tried maximum coordinate in polar and then made a circle out of those points but it doesn't put it where I thought it would I am open to any and all advice.

This might not be relevant, but Zeiss Inspect can use AMD Ryzen just fine. My Zeiss supplied computer for Inspect has an AMD Threadripper.

Alternative to 3D PDFs https://github.com/Devon-Kile/Colormap_Visualizer_addon.git https://github.com/Devon-Kile/Colormap_Visualizer.git

I created a colormap visualizer that exports colormaps as standalone HTML files. It currently supports Surface Comparisons on CAD, Surface Comparisons on Actual (mesh and point-based*), Surface Components*, and Vector Fields. For projects with multiple stages or displacement data, the viewer includes a timeline so you can switch between stages. I tried to match the look and feel of ZEISS INSPECT. In short; the exporter reads the colormap np.arrays (.data.coordinate | .normals | .scalar_values | .triangles[when available]), compresses them, and embeds them in the HTML. The exported .html opens in most of the browsers i've tested so far, and in Microsoft teams chats. the user doesnt need to install anything. = ) to install: Download .addon: https://github.com/Devon-Kile/Colormap_Visualizer_addon.git or https://github.com/Devon-Kile/Colormap_Visualizer.git code->download zip->extract the "Colormap_Visualizer" folder--> Then in Zeiss APP Editor -->Connect external folder. test it, break it, fix it, & i've also included a "prompt_for_ai.md" if you want to improve it. *known limitations documented in the README.md