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I like to use the optimal navigation tool. It asks you if you want to break up the pattern.

@Lukáš Němeček, although Calypso contains some of the most effective geometric functions available, GUI modernization and improvement have been utterly lacking in this software for years. However, if you peek at the requested improvements on "My Voice," the majority of the requests relate to GUI. There's a disconnect here that I hope Zeiss notices. Competitor software such as QVI's Zone3 does better in this respect.

This may help you, https://portal.zeiss.com/knowledge-base?id=523014

Martin Can you upload that to a drive? Google drive you mean I assume? If you can that would be great. I appreciate you very much!

Zak I don't think I have a SMA. Might have to go with Martin on this one.

Are you using a manual system (ATOS not moved by robot) or a scanbox? The workflow is described here for a scanbox: ZEISS Quality Tech Guide After the import of the reference points as 'pre-measured reference points', make sure to set the measurement dependency of your ATOS measurement series to the imported points. There was a discussion some time ago about photogrammetry and its benefits:

Hello everyone, I've tried to find information about this on the Knowledge Base or this forum and haven't found it, though I apologize if this has been asked before. I have a part that looks sort of like the barrel of a revolver. In each bore there is the bore itself, along with a kidney shaped slot at the bottom. Since it is all in the same bore, I created a sub clearance group that they all use, and this works as I expected; the stylus moves from feature to feature without having to fully retract out of the bore. However, things get tricky when I want to apply a pattern to these features since I have 9 bores. I am finding that no matter what I try, the navigation will always measure FeatureA(1), then FeatureA(2) and so on instead of measuring FeatureA(1), FeatureB(1), FeatureC(1), and so on. This takes a lot of extra time since the stylus is constantly jumping from bore to bore. My ideas are: Applying the pattern with a regular sub clearance group. This causes the probe to move through the part. Applying the pattern with a sub clearance group that has the "CNC Loops/Macro-Safety Group" box checked. This solves the issue of going through the part, but it is still jumping around, essentially making the clearance group irrelevant as it behaves the same as just the regular CP +Z. I feel that there is more to this feature that I'm not getting. I could try to measure all the slot features as a curve and extract the points into features later, but that sounds like a nightmare. And I wouldn't be able to measure the cylinder as part of the curve. The closest thing I can think of is to go to Plan->Navigation->Sort features for optimal navigation, which breaks up the pattern and solves the issue of jumping around the part, but it would still need to retract all the way out of the bore for each feature to avoid driving through the part. I have a PCM license but no experience in using it. Is there a way to do this without PCM? Am I trying to have my cake and eat it too? I appreciate the help.

Good morning Gregory, I'm not sure your SMA status, but if you have an active one with us, email cic.metrology.us@zeiss.com along with your serial number and your request and we can provide you the installation media.

For a little more detail, the basic shape is a cube with many same-sized holes machined parallel to axes created from opposite corners of the cube. All of these holes exhibit the same odd shaped data set. With the exception of the good form, I believe the stylus is shanking. These results lead me to believe there is either an issue during the machining or the base alignment. The measurement plan is from the customer and the results from a part they machined on their machine. I just need to be sure before I tell the customer.

I have it - Calypso 2018 full 6.6 + Patch 6.6.1202 But it's over 4GB - i would need to bring my big flash, copy it and upload it to my gdrive - or how you want it? I have some sort of 2017/2018/2019/2021/2023/2024 😄

@Chad Watton I remember many years ago that masking was tied solely to the first .25 seconds of the beginning of a scan, and it still is when scanning less than 360°. So, when you scanned 380° on a circle, the masked points might only be a portion of the 20° over-scan relative to the scanning speed. Then, Calypso changed to masking whatever the over-scan amount was. My assumption is that even though they are scanning 750°, the resulting circle is only using the data from the last 360° of the scan.

Looking for a copy of Calypso 6.6. I bought a machine with Calypso 2016 on it and want to upgrade to 2018. I have a license for it since I upgraded to 2025 recently. My flash drive that 6.6 came on is corrupted and I want to load it on a new computer. The portal only goes back to the 2020 version. Anyone?

Hallo, im GEAR PRO Launcher:

Thanks Martin, but I ended up recalling the points to a copy of the FF and masking the area by placing four selection boxes around it. Very clumsy method, but it worked.

Since i have done similar things and FF does not allow masking points i would go with that curve option. For correct creation of a curve you have to have no measured points on recalled feature. So either remove measured data from feature or just copy it and do recalled curve from that copy. Now check vectors or invert them and recall measured data into it. Do masking in evaluation tab and use that copied ff to recall filtered measured points from curve. Perhaps this easy way should be sufficient. If i need to have correct curve, then i do next steps: after recalculating first curve - it will create it's spline go to element creation window and switch to 2nd window from selection select "From curve" and select that spline - it will allow you to control distance of points along curve's spline and also exactly on CAD model. This is needed when you have bigger distance of points in curve and spline is not following curvature of a model ( air scanning ) If you need i can make some screenshots

The surface looks like this. The area I need to exclude is marked in green on the top. The stylus in the image is 1.5 mm. The strategy consists of 5 point sets. I can not use a smaller tip radius, otherwise I couldn't reach the points in the top left corner. Probe change is not an option for now (only the last resort if everything else fails)

Never seen "HEX" in a drawing or standard as a defined term. There should be the appropriate standards mentioned on the drawing, that tell you how to interpret this. Otherwise what martin said.

Guys that was tricky one. Thank you for this post. I had same issue. Maybe some potentional point for update of Calypso design.

First of all. Profile callout value is doubled the worst deviation point. Is your nominal in Y for the cylinder correct? Drawings states [51.30] yet you have nominal cylinder at 51.35. Also you don't see dimension [4.80] For this callout is whole tolerance into material.

Hi, I'm Gustavo. Could you guide me on how to correctly measure this tolerance? The radius and distance to datum B are within tolerance, but the surface profile tolerance is way out.

Had this happen when the hole is small, relative to probe, and out of expected position.

Hi @Jacob G.. We use two 3-bay MSR's (626100-9382-002) on our O-Inspect 543. This works fairly well.

Is there a loose/damaged component? The low form error is confusing, though. Does it have something to do with the fact that it's labeled a cylinder but has the circle symbol in the feature window? Seems like there was some tinkering with that feature at some point. I agree with the previous replies about shanking and burrs but I'd think the form error would be higher, even with filtering. I've seen something similar to that caused by a cracked (off brand) carbon fiber extension. The crack was causing the extension to flex more one way than the other and the result was similar to what you have pictured.

We recently purchased a O-Inspect 543 and want to duplicate stylus systems like what we have on an existing O-Inspect 322, but it looks like the largest MSR available on the 543 only has space for 3 styli. The MSR 5+1 (626100-9382-021) will not clear the uprights on the machine so I know that isn't an option. Has anyone else experimented with setting up multiple MSRs on the system? Thank you for your help

Well i am using that for removal of fixture from mesh. In program i am importing cad model and assigning it as a fixture. Then i am selecting used fixture in Aquisition menu. Now fixture model is exactly where ref points is telling ( according to refxml definition ) I believe after scan and background removal you normally polygonize. Then you go to selection by mesh - select fixture and define far away from model you will select on mesh. Now press Ctrl+Delete to remove selected mesh.