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Hey Chris. In person only but they are hosting events in several cities where Zeiss has a presence.

The new GD&T already has a Gaussian Shifted option, but if you are using an older version that isn't a direct option. Anyone got a method that they've tested, and like?

@Luke Cashman Yes

Does it save a report for each time it loops?

Looping is also great if you are running a large set of parts, and don't want to have to constantly go through the 'RUN' screens. Just put a programmable stop in the CNC End Park Position, swap out the part, and hit enter on the controller and you're back to measuring.

Hello all, I just recently started sometimes experiencing this issue after a measurement is completed. It happens frequently & it doesn't seem to have a science behind it - it might not happen an entire shift and sometimes it happens after every 5 parts measured. It either causes my autorun program to stop entirely - or if I am measuring a part in the window with the CAD model, it does not automatically increase the sample number for the next part - so if I do not catch this, it overwrites my PDF, excel and measured points file - causing me to have to remeasure the part entirely if I do not have my SPC software QC Calc open. Has anyone ever experienced this or knows a fix?

Hello, we were using form many years, the "public folder" for sharings stuff between differents users : When using this folder, we used to have a ""shared addon" on the addon editors : This addon as now disapears and we cannot shares scripts and others stuff between our differents users I know the v2025 is now avalaible but still, we need it also in v2023 Thank you very much for your help, Julien

Jeff, is this in person only? can we tune in remote ??

New patch and simulation for Centermax is still broken. 🤦‍♂️

Yes. It is better to just map them, and use the K value instead. I'd only rely on the Qdb.Property if I went beyond (10) userfields.

Hi everyone I would like to ask if you are using the ISO 16808-2022 version in the latest Bulge test script?

Ist bei Vorbereiten-Ergebnispräsentation-Editor für Benutzerdefinierte Protokollkopfvariablen die Eingabe erlaubt und die Zuordnung richtig?

Hi Jens Thanks for addressing the issue, I would like to receive more details about the type of material you described in your response, I have never seen a spray with such a low thickness before. I want to try it and see the result up close. I am currently using MAGNAFLUX spray, although I also tried using titanium dioxide powder sprayed using a fine air pressure gun and the resulting layer thickness was also about 8 microns. So, please if you can refer me to the gom coating. Thanks

When I run my program and the calypso report comes out, all of the fields that I have put in are coming up as blank. I have verified that the correct template is being used and I even created an additional one in case the one I was using was corrupted.

Thank you for the additional hints Christoph! Much appreciated.

Hey Yizchak, what kind of coating spray are you using right now (aerosol, TiO, gom coating, ...) and what is the application method (aerosol can, airbrush, spray gun, ...)? The 8–9 µm in your study suggest an aerosol can. In other fields of application, such as aviation, the standard is a coating thickness of 2 µm or (way) less. The GOM Coating Concentrate was developed for precisely this purpose. As well as enabling the application of thin layers, it also ensures highly efficient light utilisation at flat viewing angles, and is user-friendly and environmentally friendly (e.g. water-based yet anti-corrosive). In practice, coating thicknesses applied with the Coating Concentrate are usually undetectable. This is because the application is very thin, allowing light to penetrate to the object being measured and be diffusely reflected. It would be great to better understand your current spraying process. Gruß, Jens

@Isaias Frias Can you show how your problem looks like? From posted pics it looks fine and as it should be.

Some additional hints: 1) I assume you have choosen a surface (aka patch compound) to established your surface profile. Please note: You can also use primitive geometries (i.e. fitting cones, fitting planes, fitting cylinders and fitting spheres) if you surface is a perfect primitive form on nominal. Maybe this allows you much more stable selection on the actual, depending on you nominal selection. 2) If no other solution left you can create the needed surface into the ZI software. It's quite bit complicated, therefore I would suggest to use this approach if all other ideas failing: Making a copy of your CAD to an actual mesh Cut all not needed parts from the copied actual mesh Making the actual mesh, that is now your needed perfect nominal form to a CAD again Create a patch compound onto this reduced CAD and create the surface profile on it. Needed function to create an actual mesh from a CAD and vice visa can be found under Operation->CAD. But as said, it have a big construction effort, may be you try the other solution first. But the best solution for this problem (at least at the moment) is to split the CAD patches as suggested above.

Hey people. If you happen to be in the Minnesota area tomorrow, June 26th, feel free to stop by Zeiss in Maple Grove for Industry Tech Days. You may recognize the name of one of the guest presenters. https://www.linkedin.com/posts/jeff-frodermann_theres-something-electric-about-knowing-activity-7343777629373677568-Cl8D?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_android&rcm=ACoAACxCGlQBi-oVHL2A1S9ygqlU8EQ_8fiUgzQ

@Martin Jánský Please see attached

@Isaias Frias Please use steps as Thomas Gorman posted right above you. You move mouse cursor above "?" column and row of your headers and it will show popup hint what needs to be written in PiWeb protocol. Then it should work if you have filled this header value in start parameters or when running.

I have a little experience with this type of definition of alignment. I would rather make a new alignment with all set as 3d line -A- ( except secondary ). Then make alignment from many curves, set base alignment from previous step and allow only rotation around 3d line and translate in axis direction ( so rotation in Y and translation in Y ) About profile actual - if you enable graphical evaluation, you will then see all points in CAD view and it's deviations. Then you can figure out how it is. I would use Bilateral win unequal distribution and set tolerance one side as 0. This will surelly report biggest deviation from center of tolerance multiplied by 2.

That makes sense, interested to utilize the modification. Thank You!

Roman / Chris, thank you both! I spent some time messing around with positions and it definitely plays a part in value reported.

Sort of building off of this, I created a txt file with my own individual inputs @ the start of a program run. Those being Serial Number, Operator, and CMM. Mainly due to wanting to pull into Gear Pro at the same time. Calypso reads my header parameters, start of program input works fine, and I have the report header updated to reflect the PiWeb reporting target. However I cannot get it to show up in the header. Screenshots will be attached, any help is appreciated.