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I have a drawing calling out a (bi-lateral) position of a curved 3d surface. similar to a bowl. I get these types of parts all the time and normally this surface is called out as surface profile. The surface extracts as a torus. I'm baffled. Any ideas? I think the drawing is wrong.

I have seen this issue a few times from other customers. As Kyle mentioned above it is typically due to the ReportINI file being outdated. You will either want to point to the new Excel directory for the excel templates: "C:\Users\Public\Documents\Zeiss\CALYPSO 8.0\data\excel_report" Or copy the ReportINI files from the new directory into your old directory where the current templates are being used.

Hello, I was wondering if anyone knew if there was a way to verify if the scanbox is on, if the door is closed, and what measuring volume is detected through the script object window. If not through the object window, then through other means would be appreciated. Thank you

Servus, @Norbert Bendl Ich habe damit auch mal ein bisschen rumprobiert. Wenn ich die Formel in eine Bedingung packe funktioniert es tatsächlich. Mit der Formel in der Bedingung kann ich z.B. einen Programmierbaren Stop auslösen, oder auch nicht. Für die Koordinate bräuchte ich eine Formel mit IF > ELSE Bedingung. Wenn getRecordHead("dmesn")=="000000" ist soll die Verdrehung mit "0" eingetragen werden, und wenn getRecordHead("dmesn")<>"000000" der ermittelte Wert aus dem MAX-Punkt. Und da wehrt sich Calypso im Moment noch gegen. Trotzdem schon mal vielen Dank. Da bekomme ich bestimmt etwas mit hin. VG Michael

What i saw on our setup, we had definitions in "hosts" file. Somewhere should be setted ip address for your machine, because you have to set it on your pc.

Using constraints is forcing that feature to nominal values instead of actuals. So depending on alignment and actuals of features you can gain better or worse results. You should avoid this on simple checks like perpendicularity and paralelism.

There have been a few times that I have needed to increase the the value to 4... always on a Flatness evaluation on a stamped part, so that I did not discard a large chunk of "good data" on a "bad part"

Can you post your datums for this callout? To tryout purposes. You can disable bestfit on your surface profile. It won't apply unless you use no datum reference or you make an alignment from it and then use it elsewhere. I hope someone will join this thread.

I good handful of our parts have Perpendicularity callouts. Either an OD cylinder or ID cylinder to a face/plane. We mostly run to a .0005" tolerance. What is happening when I use Constraint and use the OD or ID to that face or plane it needs to be held to? I always see and reduction in the actual deviation. So if it is slightly out, let's say .00055" when go to evaluation and use Constraint and plug in the features it will reduce by .0002-.0003" making that result in spec and look great. I'm passing out of spec parts by doing this? There are certain situation when I can manually verify the part on a surface plate and other equipment. This has been working for me. Seeing manual check data and CMM, meaning they are pretty close to the same result. Just wondering what "Constraint" is doing.

I am using default filtering on both machines. I played around with filtering a little, but I am not that experienced with it. The Geometry Best Fit alignment was suggested on the forum on another profile thread. I gave it a shot, but when you switch to a feature alignment the results are nearly the same (-0.00368, 0.00331). Under the standard feature control frame the (M) option does not appear. There are 21 planes that show out of tolerance when graphical analysis is turned on. 20 planes show all out of tolerance, including starts and stops. 1 plane shows the middle third of the scan passes but the 1st and last third do not. Here is what the filters are set to for the freeform. I have also looked through the other features that are associated with this and I could not see anything out of place.

I have an update on this. Yes, almost every Icon has an image that shows how it is set-up and what fixture to use. These are all saved on a network location. What IT did is install a new Wi-Fi usb for network connection and they did a bios update. This has fixed the issue.

Additionally, you'll need to review your licenses, either in Zeiss License Management Tool, or Extras > Settings > Misc > Licenses to see if you have a CNC license. if you do not have one, that seat of CALYPSO cannot run a CMM

This is a question that is dependent on too many factors. A default of 3 sigma should be good for most. Remember, with 3 sigma you're keeping 99.7% of your data. At one sigma you're only keeping 68% of your data. Its just a normal distribution. There's only been a few times where I knew I wanted to eliminate a ton of data where I lowered the sigma value on my filtering.

I am not sure if you have correct alignment due (M) for datum D. Now you have similar view like from PC-DMIS, but it seems like you have still something different. How is your filtering and outlier elimination? It would be helpful for you if you enable graphical evaluation and look where are those min and max deviation. It should be at start and stop of scanning path, i believe.

you have to name your machine name first then keyboard Tab it will show ADD

Hi Andrew, To create a new machine tab, type in a new name and then hit ENTER. This will activate the "Add" button. https://portal.zeiss.com/knowledge-base?id=2837053

I do have the USB dongle on the laptop and I have the online license activated. I should be good to go but its only showing ACCURA1_RDS which is the name of our offline machine. It wont let me add our actual ACCURA, the add button is greyed out.

I'm sure it's very simple, but I can't seem to figure out how to export a report as CSV file. Is there anyone that knows that can help me?

You must set IP address for NIC card that is plugged into the Zeiss machine must be 192.4.1.199, submask 255.255.255.0. after setting up communication network. don't forget to bring dongle usb device from your old pc to plug into your laptop.

Offline license alone is not enough to run CMM. If you have USB dongle with license file backup from old one, then you can transfer it to laptop.

PC-DMIS is reporting per ASME 14.5, however I am not sure what standard Calypso reports in. I did switch Calypso to bilateral - two results to perhaps get a better idea of what's going on. I know that I am missing something. Could this be that the setup of the freeform is incorrect? I'm okay with you questioning/doubting my experience. That's why I'm here 🙂

Our computer for one of our CMMs died yesterday and we are trying to connect an offline programming laptop to the CMM. The laptop has Calypso and I downloaded and activated a full Claypso license, it is no longer an offline seat of Calypso. The issue we have right now is that the laptop cannot make a connection to the CMM and I am not able to create a new CMM in Calypso. Any help would be appreciated!

To reverse engineer you have two options: The best option is a special reverse engineering software (or a RE module in a CAD package). This needs training and experience. The second-best option is "automatic" reverse engineering by Inspect or a similar software. You already mentioned "actual mesh to CAD", this function needs an extra license. The problem with "automatic" reverse engineering is that because the software knows nothing about the important geometries of the part (like planes, bores, etc.) it can only "guess" a number of "randomly" distributed freeform surfaces, which resemble the scanned part, but are practically uneditable in a CAD program as they do not follow any "design intent". Maybe in the future, with the evolution of AI, we might see automatic reverse engineering software that is able to recognize and correctly recreate geometry elements.

Ja, das kann natürlich sein, daß Calypso sich ohne PCM-Lizenz weigert, bestimmte Parameter zu akzeptieren. Das lässt sich hier schlecht testen, da wir die Lizenz haben und ich nicht sicher bin, ob es zum Testen reicht, sie vorübergehend zu deaktivieren (also ob das Verhalten dann exakt gleich ist wie wenn man sie gar nicht hat). Update: Ich habe mal testweise die PCM-Lizenz deaktiviert und kann ohne Probleme Formelausdrücke wie getRecordHead("dmesn")=="000000" benutzen. Vielleicht kannst du da ja nochmal die Gegenprobe machen. Nur nochmal zum Verständnis: Du machst wahrscheinlich grafische Auswertungen gegen das CAD, die dann nicht mehr passen?

wie schon erwähnt ohne Verrauschung zeigt Calypso "0" an.