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I had this happen to me. They were able to run a RDS check on it to confirm that there was an issue. They replaced the RDS. Mine was pretty severe though. At times you could visually see how far off it was, and then yes times it was off enough that either it crashed or gave crazy results.

I am having issues with one of our RDS heads. Basically at certain sequence of angle rotations it will cause the head to be so far off it is missing features, i.e. .040+inch. I set up a 1-2-3 block on the machine and measured the corner of it with a plane on the top, front and side, starting at A90, B0, which I set as my zero point. Then rotating the rds by increments on A, it will fail at certain ones. It only seems to do it at arbitrary sequences. Note that I have it going from A90, to A180 at the top (was running in "From characteristic list" order). If I run that same program with A180 after A165, then that angle doesnt fail any more. I have a ticket in with Zeiss for this since we had this issue before, but then when the tech arrived, I couldn't replicate it any more (I think IRC cal was done first thing before I could try to demonstrate it which may have fixed the issue for a time but now its back). But I was wondering if anyone has seen a problem like this before.

I used space points individually and verified the x y z values and vectors. I created the plane from the CAD, Then recalled feature points, unchecked the recalculate geometry button so I took the nominals from the CAD. This has worked for me. I am not sure if it is incorrect in some way, but thats what has worked for me.

Dang, yeah I'm trying to set a plane with points, so I can't use anything but the points method in the feature window. I'm basically having to find a spot that works, click all of my points in the same spot, and then just set them manually with X/Y values. I was hoping to find out what's causing the issue or if there's enough other people having the same issue that maybe a fix is coming.

I had this happen recently, and just used space points instead of points

C:\Program Files (x86)\Zeiss\CALYPSO 7.6\bin\PiWebReporting\defaults C:\Program Files (x86)\Zeiss\CALYPSO 7.6\bin\PiWebReporting\defaults\StatusImages I didn't play around with this, just found them when I was learning to customize our reports.

I tried these both and they each worked. I'm going to use point-tangent for this application. Thanks for the suggestions!

Unless the report is setup with Dynamic Images, the Image tool stores the image directly into the report, so you'd have to grayscale that image manually, and then reload it into the report.

That's why i proposed to make intersection of groove circle with groove central circle like this

Can you point me in the folder direction of these images for PiWeb?

When I tried circle to circle, it was tangent to both circles.

We have an offline seat, but I still can't get it to work properly. I have spent hours on the problem. I made a lot of headway when I logged in as master. That solved a huge list of issues.

You can select faces and use fitting point. Then select refferenced principle. Now you can use projected distance.

I was planning to update our reports for Calypso 2025, I can add this to my list. I might be misremembering, but I think some of the items on the reports are just images stored in some folder; gray scaling those images might be a solution.

I'd like to check distance between middle surface point and plane. But my point is in air. Which measure principle for surface point can I use?

Can you make a theoretical circle from center and radius to center of groove's circle to intersection?

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I recently did what you need. See attached image. Create a point at the center of the part (Theoretical, intersection, projection, etc). Scan the radius. Drop in a "Tangents" ----Construction, Tangents Select the Point and the Circle of your radius. P.s. I have an alignment that allows me to create the radius in the correct geometry location. (Trihedron showing =Z axis to center of Circle21). It seems like we are doing the same type of slot, my dims are quite similar to yours.

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Can they make PiWeb show the entire report when re-opened instead of just the characteristic(s) you looked at. I collect data after each CMM run; many times, I have to review data from the PiWeb report (Anything OOT). doG forbid, I view or edit a characteristic and PiWeb magically closes, or perhaps I accidently closed PiWeb, or saved my program which forces PiWeb to close. When you try to re-open the report, you get the last characteristic(s) viewed/edited instead of the entire report. Forcing a user to cycle through the program to generate a new report generates new files and changes the part counter (Which I use as a part counter and or Serial number identification). The current activity forces me to go to the storage locations, remove all the older files that were previously generated and keep the new ones, so I do not get duplicate information. This is really a pain in the back. Some of my programs are quite large, run times can be up to 4 hours and thousands of characteristics in a single report. Depending on conditions (Using graphics from CAD Evaluation) regeneration of reports can take half an hour or more. Instead of having a single selection to view the PiWeb report add a second selection. 1. View the last generated report in its entirety. 1a. Show the report last generated regardless of any changes. 2. View the last characteristic(s) viewed or edited. This would greatly aid in file management.

I browsed a few posts but could not find a clear method to find the tangent angle for the characteristics shown in the screenshot. It's for a family of parts so I'd like to have a repeatable method. What's the best way to find report this?

I wonder if you can modify this inside PiWeb template. Then you would use condition based on comment or some character in characteristic's name to change output units. Otherwise you can change units only for whole program. Units are not stored individually inside character/feature block ( inside "inspection" or "inspset" file

Unfortunatelly in older Calypso it was via Basic reporter, which is not used in newer versions. So i am using CAD presentation, where i have shown deviation labels or PiWeb curve, where i have to put it manually.

We recently got a new Duramax and was trying to run 6.8. We were told we had to go to at least 7.4. No big deal, except for....I can't figure out how to make form plots like I could in 6.8. We use Curve and scan a "cam" shaped ID and the operators and engineers use these form plots as good visuals of their process. I know that in 7.4 "Presentation" pdf for reports is gone although it still works with the programs that were created in lower versions of Calypso. So yesterday I was creating a program that I was able to do a "save as" to and adjust some things as needed. I couldn't get the image(form plot) of the "Curve Form or even Graphic Element to work. I eventually got to point to where an image/plot would show up, but when I ran the program all that popped up was the data("presentation pdf") I did a file save as and switched to using PiWeb reporting which I am not really familiar with, I have trouble making reports save to network location desired. Still got no images or plots. #1 What needs done for form plots to populate or show at the end of a run in 7.4? #2 What took the place of Graphics Element in 7.4 like in older versions of Calypso, looking to have data and images saved into one pdf. #3 What is the trick to getting pdf reports in/using PiWeb type to save to a network location even though in Resources>Name for output files>...for this measurement plan, I have given the correct file path for the data. Lincoln

Hello, this thread could help.