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Hello @David Carr, have you tried another Browser? Even internally we often had issues caused by the Browser. Best Regards Marcel

Here is quick little document I created, please remember that you can select run from the tool bar, drop down menu and F8 on the joystick Rev is in honor of the student who lost it and is kind of a joke because he was an old co-worker that I can now bust his chops 🙂 Missing Run Button Rev Wade 01.pdf

Hi David, no, I just loged in.

Is anybody else having an issue logging into the Zeiss Portal? Haven't been able to log in for a couple weeks.

Hallo zusammen, ich möchte eine Kugelgewindespindel in Zeiss Calypso messen. Dafür muss die Spindel vor der eigentlichen Messung korrekt eingedreht werden. Ich habe gehört, dass man dafür einen Teil der Helix messen und anschließend einen Bestfit erstellen kann, bei dem nur die Rotation um die Spindelachse (C-Achse) freigegeben wird. Die Translationen X, Y und Z sowie die Rotationen um X und Y sollen dabei gesperrt bleiben, sodass lediglich die Verdrehung der Spindel bestimmt wird. Leider ist mir nicht klar, wie man das in Calypso Schritt für Schritt umsetzt. Meine Fragen sind: Wie erstelle ich daraus einen Bestfit, bei dem ausschließlich die Rotation um die Spindelachse freigegeben ist? Welche Einstellungen muss ich im Bestfit bzw. in der Ausrichtung vornehmen? Ein CAD-Modell sowie das Curve-Modul sind vorhanden. Falls jemand diesen Ablauf bereits umgesetzt hat oder ein Beispielprogramm bzw. eine kurze Anleitung hat, würde ich mich sehr darüber freuen. Vielen Dank!

I believe an element needs to be tied to characteristic for CNC export.

I use Red Cratex, sometimes Brown. You can rub or spin the sphere on the Cratex, it will clean it quite well. I examine the spheres under 7x and 10x. I have been doing this for about 18+ years extending the life of styli 10x in most diameters (1mm is difficult due to breakage). Do not spin the Cratex with a motorized device, spin the stylus instead by hand or motorized device at slow rpms.

I am trying to create a DXf file of points for a customer; I have not worked with this option before. I should be creating a folder with dxf files, it isn't working. The last image is an example of what is required in simplest terms. What do I have wrong or don't have setup?

My understanding is that Sigma values on zeiss are always in millimeters regardless of the machine units setting.

I posted a slyli roundness check program is this thread. the one I use is highly modified from the one posted. So feel free to customize it as needed. I highly recommend buying a separate reference ball from Bal-Tec. That way you're not wearing out your reference sphere by running probe checks all day. I record the styli roundness, diameter, and XYZ values in a database to see trends over time.

In addition to this instruction, I recall the current stylus values in my reports and then report the after qualification in the same reports. (Ignore the tolerances, I rely strictly on deviation of before and after results). If we see deviations of .0001, it is automatically investigated with disc styli being an exception. _Micura_252_26.6.29_2026-6-29_8_27_22 am_.pdf

@Christoph Schult I see page number 23 in english version. Thank you, I wasn't aware of that. @Nanno Muehl Do we see user interface improvement possibility here? Maybe when Standard ISO 1101 is used, Tolerated element - Associated should be greyed-out. But it should still be available when selecting Standard - Geometry

Use the result element and select the formula option. You can then enter the values shown in the image to obtain the results. I output sigma and the radius. It involves a huge amount of work at the start, but it pays off in the end. Good luck! Greetings from the Black Forest, Germany 😉

@na_vor: Yes this modifier exists but it cannot used in combination with an MMR modifier: "Der Modifikator für das assoziierte tolerierte Geometrieelement darf nicht zusammen mit einem Modifikator für die Assoziation von Referenzelementen, siehe 8.2.2.3.1, oder einem Parameter-Modifikator, siehe 8.2.2.3.2, oder einem Modifikator für eine Materialbedingung, siehe ISO 2692, verwendet werden." see DIN EN ISO 1101:2017 p.33, sorry for the german quote but I have access to an english version. Your example means that you are not using an extracted middle axis (ISO default) to evaluate your position tolerance but the axis of an associated gauss cylinder.

Do you think I could pull in the sphere diameter or radius? using result element?

I looked through this... I like it.

I did set all the probes at .0001" from the default of .00039" We want to catch the "bad"/"contaminated" qualification and make it fail with a low limit value. We are normally hanging around .00002" to all zeros.....millionths in "S" are normal for our Duramax's

@Lincoln Knott https://portal.zeiss.com/knowledge-base?id=443334 This will help you create a program with report output, so you can verify sizes.

I would check out the "Set Limit Values" option inside the Probing System Qualification. The attached screenshot shows the deafult values which are very loose. I think a reduced sigma and potentially radius would've have flagged this error. Additionaly, it can also allow a max time between qualifactions. Since these options are all built in Calypso, it looks a great place to start and might satify your needs.

We had an issue last week where the new operator in a cell ran an "ALL" probe qualification program and he didn't clean the balls of at least one of the probes. This specific probe gets used alot in comparison to the other probes in the rack on this Duramax. So as you could imagine the cylindrical parts that he run, although "in spec" on his CMM because a contaminated probe qualification were all in face oversized for the OD measurements and undersized for the ID measurements. We had a meeting about this today because we now 96 parts that or out of spec...OD/ID. Tolerance for these diameter are ±.00025" I did some investigating on Friday and found that the CMM thought the ball of the stylus was about .0004" bigger than is supposed to be. These are bronze parts and the residue/dust from the machined parts coated the ruby ball stylus. I was asked in a meeting today... 1. Can I make a program that measures the reference sphere, and it reports the diameter of it. Which I could probably do, I'm thinking. 2. Can I somehow report the radius of the probes as it runs the qualification program. We want more information to be shown after the qualification program is done. It does show a presentation pdf, but these types of programs don't show anything. I attached the reports that get saved. The operators only see the presentation pdf, not the .txt file. -Anyway to add stylus ball radius and radius or diameter of the reference sphere? Lincoln Probe Calibration06_22_2642862026-6-22.pdf Probe Calibration52026-6-22.txt

I reread the dynamic profile section, and I don’t think my suggestion works for this part since the note says MAX and "MEASURED SURFACE". I think reporting profile with no datums and a unilateral tolerance zone in the + material direction would satisfy Note 17.

I have the same symptoms. I need to improve this as soon as possible.

Never used End-Park with a Rotary inside of AutoRun, but you could also just turn on the homing run inside of the measurement plan, so that it will always home before starting - this would negate any stacking of misalignment.

Sorry I did not respond. Been occupied on another issue. This absolutely worked. Thank you so much.

It was 100% the differently applied filter settings. Thanks!