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When I took Calypso Basic and Advanced in like 2014, @Tom Oakes was the instructor. He did not refer to this button as "Measurement Plan Editor Features", he called it "Tom's Favorite Button". I still use the latter to this day 🙂

2 things: 1. IT can have their own portal access. It's easy and free and the only correct way to do this. 2. once IT has access, they will use a system of helpdesk tickets to resolve all issues. You've got other stuff to do.

Yep. We went through this. Seriously, just go through the motions of reporting every single one. Be patient. They will get sick of pointless investigating and needless downtime.

I am the sole guy at my shop building and managing all 200 systems. My predecessors used loctite and / or superglue, I never have. We all have always assembled by feel, not a measured torque setting. The major difference worth considering is that the threads of the systems I assembled are clean when disassembled, making subsequent assembly quick and easy. All of their threads require cleaning, cursing, and swearing. I've never ever lost a thread connection; I don't know why it would happen. Perhaps other shops CMM rougher than we do.

I could see the excel report generated but it did not save the default result folder.

Thanks - unfortunately i have no idea why it's not working. All my options are out

Yes, I have checked excel button, after the pallet done running, I got only PDF and Text doc report not an excel.

There is a settings for changing headers and travel speed - there is an option to check excel, qdas and others

HI Martin, I'm not sure but I where do i look for output pallet sittings? I went to define report in pallet section, but I see no excel setting option

Do you have enabled Excel output in pallet settings?

Hello gentlemen, I'm doing a new project and using Pallet Autorun interface but I'm having an issue with excel report data because Pallet Autorun is not generating an excel report only gave me with PDF report. When I run a single program, it gives me excel and PDF reports but not with the Pallet Autorun interface and on the run screen there is no the option box to check excel reports. Could anyone please help me with that issue? Thanks very much in advance.

did you check the shell-button?

A blind hole depth isnt a dimension I would typically ever put on a cmm. But you could try this: https://cmm-quarterly.squarespace.com/articles/calypso-blind-hole-depth

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Hello. I am attempting to measure this dimension here. The depth of a screw hole not including the taper at the bottom. I am attempting to do this by extracting the tapered section as a cone, and the hole as a cylinder. Then I create an intersection plane between the two, and measure that to an intersection plane of the cylinder and front surface. When I attempt to make the intersection between a cone and a cylinder, it places the result at the pointed tip of the cone, and not the intersection plane between the two. What is causing this? Thank you for any help

I have been working on fitting one of these on two Micura 5/5/5's. Very limited space with our current configuration. The company was kind enough to send me CAD models for me to establish how to place it on these small CMM's. My last detail is to make the CMM programs always move up and over the part and never in the -Y axis.

My current build. This probe is 6 inches long, so you would need about a 60mm extension for the counterweight (best guess). If you balance the stylus on the tips of two fingers after its built, you will have a good idea if it is balanced. I place two fingers under the Adaptor far apart as close to center as possible, then let the stylus hang.

Do you get those results with 100% probing dynamic? When I tested it with a counterweight, it made minimal difference. I will likely check the weight and test again. It is currently yielding acceptable results, but I need to do a short R&R run to validate those results on a known specimen. I really like this approach. I had not considered testing each section of the system. We need the clearance added with the vertical extension and the 11mm diameter of the horizontal extension. Sounds like the initial plan will be to test each piece of the system and find the weak point. Then I will add a counterweight to the system. If all items check fine, but the entire system still yields bad results at 100% dynamic, is it reasonable/acceptable to lower the probing dynamic for something like this?

For me, I would say this stylus system introduces two significant undesirables - Length and stiffness. Length - The longer the probing system (with all things being equal), the more error will be introduced. Unfortunately that’s just the way physics works. The shorter you can make your stylus system the better. Stiffness – The longer the build-up, the more important it becomes to have the extensions be as stiff as possible. The 20mm Ø extensions are stiffer than the 11mm Ø extensions. Suggestions – 1) Is it possible to remove the vertical extension and cube, then mount the horizontal extension to the cube on the plate? This would reduce length and weight. I’ve done this on a few of our systems and it always helps. 2) Can you replace the 11mm Ø extension with a 20mm? That would help with stiffness. And use the shortest extension possible. 3) Sometimes you can gain a little bit by changing the probing pressure. Sometimes more is better, and sometimes less is better. Experiment. 4) As others have suggested, a counterbalance may get you a little bit too. 5) Slower speeds may also get you a little. You’re still going to have a significant sigma value so I would also suggest doing an R&R study using the artifact so you know how much measurement error the system is going to introduce in each of the directions, and the diameter. If I remember right, Zeiss recommends a 10-run R&R. I usually do a 5 or 6-run.

No change occured when using runPCMFile()

the fileExists() comes back as true. i have also tried using actualInspectionsDir() and still no luck

I'll try that @Jens Kröcher and see if it works.

We have a stylus system that is very close to that one. It often qualifies between .0005 and .0010. We do use a counter weight, but it still doesn't qualify that well. We only use it for stuff with loose tolerance since I know its not that accurate. HOWEVER, I would suggest trying a different adaptor plate as well. The XTR adaptor plates are more complicated which just means that there is more that can go wrong. Which sucks, cause those things are $$$.

I recommend a counter weight as well along with taking it apart and cleaning the threads of all connections. The threads usually get me. I also find it ok to probe at 1% dynamics if needed.

I was able to find it too ( created dummy program and overwritten two files ) I am still working on my app - certainly it's not showing all things