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I would imagine a standard Pallet Alignment would take care of this for you, but here is the Knowledge Base article for what you are looking for. https://portal.zeiss.com/knowledge-base?id=444321

Could you please share a photo or a sketch of your setup? I suspect the solution might be very simple.

Martin, Thank you for the answer. Is there any way you can give me a detailed account on how you stored all your part alignments? The parts we run are all over the place. One part may be super short, another bent to the right. What we're trying to achieve is a manual alignment on each part in the program before we switch to autorun (so that way the probe doesn't crash performing the base alignment on the next part). Is this still achievable?

For this we ended up with storing part alignment in all positions ( storing with name "p1", "p2", ... ) and then linking those alignments with position of pallet. Unfortunatelly this is the only way - you can not define pallete anything other than X and Y

Hello all, Imagine there are the 5 exact same parts on a pallet with the exception of their heights. Does anyone know how I would be able to take an alignment for each one so that the machine will know where to go without any input? I understand there is the "LOS position" feature in autorun, but I am unsure how to set it up. Any help will be appreciated.

Love that idea! It won't change the inputs the operator has to make but will add a timestamp to the file whenever it is saved to prevent the overwrite issue I am seeing. Thank you for this!

I second Thomas's suggestion. If you need any information on setting up the name for your output files, take a look at this KB article: https://portal.zeiss.com/knowledge-base?id=587888

I would set up variable file naming and probably use getRecHdForFil("time") to add a timestamp to the file name. That way it should be unique even if the same run number is used.

The documents provided by Kyle Johnson are good trouble shooting article's. If you're have trouble with the drives shutting off when moving the Z-axis on an older Duramax, I'll add that you do not have to take the 16 screws out to remove the Z axis cover to access the res-set switch on the Z drive motor. If you look closely with a flashlight, you can see the re-set switch and re-set it with a pencil or something skinny and long enough to reach it thru the vents at the top on the back side of the cover. I reset one yesterday and it's still running fine:-).

Hi all, I wanted to know if anyone has a solution for a problem I am seeing. Example: We run parts and have the PDF Files setup to autosave at the completion of a run. Say I run "Part A_Run 1" and it fails. I modify it and need to run it again, it should be "Part A_Run 2" and if so, everything works fine. What is happening is that operators aren't remembering to correctly rename the Run number so the might run another "Part A_Run 1" and it overwrites the file in the directory we have it going to without asking something like "Are you sure you want to save over this?" or "There is already something named this...blah blah" Is there a way to prevent file over-writes so that we don't have this happen? Lost a few files today because of this issue and I don't have an easy fix for it without telling the operators you really need to pay attention to the Run number to ensure you aren't repeating something already in the folder. Thanks

Hello, Saw this answered in another thread. Glad that it seems to be working for you now.

Very true. I think i got into the habit of using this method since plane with offset wasn't working for providing a profile results with stock removed.

Much easier to just create a Construct - Plane with Offset if this is what you are doing.

Has anyone with a Surfcom had issues with the detector failing and had to deal with the lengthy lead time to get a replacement part? The lead time we were told is 2-6months for a replacement part which seems pretty crazy to me but Zeiss said that is normal for that part. If you have run into this issue, can you provide insight on what your company did to help bridge the gap and inspect parts while having a machine down for months? We are a prototype heavy company and use it daily for inspecting tight tolerance threads, radii, and chamfers.

I think this was said above but heres some pictures. Copy your Z plane, make it a theoretical. use GetNominal formula for the nominals & GetActual for the actual Create and alignment same as your base alignment but use the theoretical plane with your offset.

Hi! I need to measure a small 0.92mm plastic hole using 143 points. What filter settings should I apply? Thank you!

I did a very small amount of opendmis, but besides that everything else i have used for cmm is calypso

I know you can do this all in Calypso, especially using PCM; But that's not what I do. I highly recommend using the .chr and .hdr table files. And then using a Python script or something. The .chr and .hdr tables files have everything you need in it already. Python could combine as many files as you want into the same file. Don't be intimidated writing Python scripts. With AI, everyone is a programmer now.

I can try tommorow, but i think you can edit that template to show unit assigned.

I am trying to export the data from multiple CMM runs into the same excel file. I am able to export the data from one run into the default Calypso excel sheet, but I want to have more data than the default sheet has. I would like to include columns to list the dimension type (linear distance, diameter, etc) and mold cavity number. I have an excel template that we currently fill out manually, but I want to automate the process. On our printouts, the dimension type for each characteristic and the cavity number are reported, so I figure that Calypso has some way of exporting this data to an excel sheet. Any help is appreciated, thanks!

Hi team , I want to create label with clamping force with unit(N) , but the unit of force is not visible in the result. If i rewrite in the template to newtons then i have everything in newtons🫣 Is that even possible? Many thanks for any advice.

With active head it should keep pretty close to set probing force even for scanning. I am not familiar with us, but i read that like 20 grams of force. It should be 10N = 1kg so 10:1 ratio Usually it's default probing force is stored with calibration - you are setting that before calibrating.

I tried to get it on my Google Pixel and got a message that it was not available for my device because it was made for an older version of android.

Just a few questions on measurement force. Appreciate the insight! How many lbs of force does the probe place on the part when it's measuring? Is it the calibration force? 200mN is the default measuring force for probe qual. Does the force change with scanning vs single point? Does the force change when scanning into the probe stem vs. perpendicular to the probe stem?

Richard, We had the same issue arise with our Zeiss Prismo 12/18/10, which was installed in 2008. After a few days of limping along (we brought back partial function by cleaning the glass scales), we had the motor replaced by a service technician. After examining the old motor, he could feel something was not turning smoothly and concluded it was the motor. Let's assume the motor was at the end of its life and it just took something to 'push it over the edge'. I wonder if that something may have been a probing strategy involving short, repeated movements and accelerations contained in the CMM program I last ran. The CMM is heavily used by production on generally much larger parts. But this special program I was running before the failure is a small 60mm wide impeller with several vanes. This being a CMM with a larger volume means a lot more mass having to be repeatedly moved and placing more demand on the motor. Anyway the boss has decided not to allow impellers to be measured on that machine anymore, as the downtime and hit to production was painful. Does anyone care to comment on the above theory? Thank you,