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Good morning everyone, FYI: development is currently working on this to be more user friendly, i dont know about the planned timeline but there will be a change about this matter with the upcoming CALYPSO Versions. Best Regards Marcel

Sounds like calypso is just super buggy with this and badly programmed. Thank you all for your advice. I ended up starting a clean file and rewriting the program from scratch. I was not that hard of a program and only took about 6 hours.

We have a part that has very few planes that can be aligned to. What is worse is that to fit it in the cmm and measure things it needs to be NOT square to the cmm. After a few hours, I am still working on the alignment process. Without too much detail,I have found that the software is not putting points where i click them! I think that if I can solve the problem if I can figure this out. I have a plane that is NOT square to the coordinate system. I need to place a point on that plane. I click on the model and the point ends up not on the model and not in the location I clicked. The point ends up around 0.03" off to the side and about 0.01" above the model by eyeball estimation. I have tried adjusting the view and this does not fix the problem. I really don't understand how it is picking that location. It forces the ijk of the point to be square to the coordinate system. I can manually fix that even though it fights me. Is there a thread for people who have fought this kind of thing before? I came from using Verisurf, Polyworks, and PCDMIS. None of them had issues with handling parts that were not square to the coordinate system or did not have nice tidy squarish features to work with. Why is Calypso so bad at this?

Hi Meaghan, In the probing system qualification window, be sure to click on the blank box that is immediately to the left of the stylus name. You should see a black arrow appear. This activates the Geometry Requalification option. See below.

Richard, What file explorer is that? Doesn't look like Windows Explorer.

Norbert, do you have some advice where I can find commands I can use there? Just tested the one you've supplied and I find it might be useful for CAD operations without bothering design engineers. Thanks!

Unhide 3 - Plot sheet from your second image. You may need to hide 5 - Picture; on 2024 on our CMM cad evaluation shows up with 3 - Plot.

This is my suspicion. Whether I'm using a powerful or bottom of the barrel GPU (even with anti-aliasing maxed out and other fireworks) the GPU utilization stays very low. I've always suspected that maybe my models are not complex enough. But, if it's choking with complex model, I would suspect the CPU is bottlenecking the GPU.

That's why i added a link 🙂 He has a nice channel with many good ideas for DIY I also watch many electronic repair channels and one specific - Adrian's Digital Basement for an old computers 🙂

We use Starrett Granite Surface Plate Cleaner for all our CMMs. It works very well for lifting out the oil and small debris particles packed into the granite that isopropyl alcohol can't quite reach.

If I load the same cad model into solidworks and quickly rotate the model around I see my GPU performance max out. I don't see the same performance spike in Calypso so that leads me to believe it's either not using the GPU at all or other aspects of Calypso that uses the CPU is creating a bottleneck of performance such that the GPU is hardly utilized at all.

The creator of TMOG has a great youtube channel called Dave's Garage.

Projected tolerance on TP will result in measuring TP in places, where you can not measure ( typically in assembly ). Projected tolerance for perpendicularity will result in using different length - again for cases you can not measure directly. This is not suitable for using it as UZ. Only thing i would see used is on one of our customer - TP with UZ - it was used with length distance, so we moved TP TED position by that UZ.

I am currently trying to switch my qualification mode from “qualify passive stylus” to “geometry re-qualification” in the probe qualification settings. Anytime I am trying to do so, the options are ghosted out and I can’t switch them for certain probes. We have been able to do this before on the specific Contura that I am operating. I just don’t want it to take 2 hours and re-qualify all existing angles due to time constraints. Is there another way I can switch the mode?

Yes, sorry I was looking at the wrong report. Is this ok?

So now it will run the Kiosk Setup, but it doesn't configure it correctly, so when you try to start Kiosk it throws an error saying it isn't configured correctly.

@Jochen Heller It was most likely already installed.

I got the script where i would expect it to be. But why is my settings interface different than yours?

Hmm. Now I run into more issues. 🙃

I just fixed it. I had the pull the Kiosk script from a computer that already had it installed, but what's frustrating is that I have no idea as to where you would actually get that script from anymore. It is not located in the Software App section anymore. I'm not certain why it isn't installed with the ScanPort app.

Have you tried starting kiosk setup directly or by editing the config file?

looks different for me

ok i havent run this from this menue yet. I try to emulate your situation.

Yes - I'm on the latest of both Inspect and ScanPort app. Yes - I can see what the error is, but I have no control over this app. It is looking for a userscript that does not exist though. I'm trying to run the setup for Kiosk mode.

Should be the latest 🤔 What are you executing that throws this error?