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You can have both. There is an Fa or a Fb with directional values, and there is the more typical known Fa or Fb that is the absolute value. Maybe someone like @Roman Groß could help shed some more light as to why the ANSI spec is reported this way.

Sure? You could also just create a new Alignment and fill in that point as the Z Origin - it should net the same exact result, but with less steps.

If that is the case, then just simply make Datum B the Tertiary as well. There are cases where that is not recommended, but I believe in your case it would be OK. Here is a Knowledge Base article about this. https://portal.zeiss.com/knowledge-base?id=868503

If I was running Calypso 2018 and I had a profile of a cone called out to B as primary and A as secondary, and no teriary, I return no value. If freeform is not available what is the work around to return correct results? For context B is an outside cylinder on the bottom of a plane which is A. Think of a top hat. The cone is on the other side of A and is an internal cone with the vertix pointing toward B with the intent that the cone and B share an axis. It's been a while since I needed to work without free form. Consequently the system does have curve.

I should know this but my brain is a bit foggy. I have a face groove detail on a cylindrical part. View shown below is from the -Y direction. The Z depth of this groove has been problematic for reasons I don't know. The drawing is calling for profile of 2 radii within the curve. If I take a point in the -Z direction at the bottom, where the 2 radii are tangent, I believe that will give the curve enough information to locate it for measuring. Will a geometry best fit alignment from the point do the job?

Was there any answer to why the machine was doing this? Our Contura’s XXT started doing this today.

@Norbert Bendl I am working with the program that is saved on my pc and is not connected to the customer's network where the cad model was loaded from. @Richard Stanich My file explorer is set to show hidden files. @Bruce Kudanian That was the first thing I did. Model.sab still didn't come back in later paragraph I've opened every file that could be opened with notepad and searched for "CAD", "model" and "igs" and found nothing that would lead me to believe it was linked to a mystery file, but not every file opened an ascii file. For shigs & gittles, I loaded the cadcube.sab file and it replaced the original ghost model and it behaves like normal. The model is visible in the hierarchy but not with the typical CAD file name. Also, in the measurement plan folder, there is no "model.sab" or "model_eval.sab" file. Yes, I completely closed out Calypso and re-loaded the mp. This makes me think there is another location storing the model info?????

There is a regulator valve behind the festo gage. Pull down on the blue knob and turn clockwise/counterclockwise to increase or decrease the air.

@Marco Giraudo you can also change from single stage to video/flipbook in the properties of the report page:

We had one of our Conturas have this error just a few weeks ago. We had a tech come out and he diagnosed the problem as a malfunctioning sensor control board. After it was replaced, our machine was fixed. Hope this helps.

same issue here. Tried to unistall the latest KB installed yesterday, not working either

Go to: Plan -> Measurement run Info for CNC start -> Select ..... you can choose a set-up picture, a word file, power point file, etc. Then in the autorun program icon under Measurement Plan Definition, click on checkbox for Force measurement run information at CNC start.

We want to see the model, which contains our setup fixture (part orientation) in the Autorun module.

All GD&T values are zone of tolerance, not a pure linear deviation. So a +0.300 deviation from nominal results in a 0.600 zone of tolerance consumption of the profile.

It looks like there is some invalid character that it doesn't like that you are using.

This is great. Confusion was why does is it multiply by 2. If the actual dimension deviates .300 from nominal, why does at measure at .600 profile. Thank you for your explanation on this. I appreciate it.

I have very similar star probe on an XTR sensor, I have had no problems with qualifying at all. The only weak link is the Down position, is that a 1.5Ø stylus? I would go with a stepped shaft for that.

Bonjour, Depuis peu, à la fin de la mesure de mon programme, le rapport Piweb ne fonctionne plus et affiche une erreur " valeur hexadécimal 0x0C est un caractère non valide. Ligne 46, position 619." Je n ai aucune idée du pourquoi et du comment. Si j active le protocole standard, cela fonctionne parfaitement. Savez de quoi cela peut venir ?

These are all settings in qdasconv.con, where you specify whether it's dfq, dfd+dfx. As Martin says, everything is contained in dfq, and dfd and dfx are divided into attributes and results. The path is also set there and is valid. If you want to do it temporarily, I would make a copy of the file, change it, and then restore the original later.

The same here, would be nice to have a solution in time.

Hello, same problem, no login possible at Quality Soite

I'm pretty sure Cory did a complete uninstall and re-install of Calypso 2025 with the latest patch "8.0.1203" then created a new master probe + imported other probes and that seems to work in simulation.

@Donny Fraser, Very interesting approach. Thanks for sharing about it. It sounds like this is a strategy that others have found to be effective. My first inclination would be to probe the datum simulator surfaces that the workpiece's datum features contact. This requires that the datum simulators have minimal form error and that the workpiece makes proper contact with them. However, I love hearing alternative approaches including best-fit alignments. Keep us posted on this project, and I would love to hear how it turns out.