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I am doing manual position, then program, but i think i'll try sphere on different position with one probe - i am curious too.

Hi all, If I put a Probing System Qualification in my probe calibration program for the Masterprobe at the beginning, and use Geometry Requalification, does it update the reference sphere position and then calibrate the Masterprobe? I'm trying to understand if I need to manually find the RS position each time with the Masterprobe at the beginning of an autocal program, or if it finds it during the geometry requalification? If so, is there a search distance it uses to locate the RS? If not, how do I update the RS position automatically at the beginning of the program before autocalibrating all the other probes? Hope that made sense.

You can look through your defined systems in stylus system management. Should be able to find which one has that ID. VAST plates have it on a label too.

I'm pretty new to designer, but I did think this would be easy. We have an automated cell, and sometimes the CMM inspection order isn't the same as the manufacturing order. I want to have a specific template just for this automated cell, utilizing the manufacturing time to sort the X axis. I know that I can click on "single measurements" in monitor and sort that way, but I'm wanting it to be automated for the other people viewing. Anyone have any ideas? I don't see any options in the line plot properties to change this.

You can teach new id - but this is either dirt / non-conductive layer on contacts or that chip is bad. Chip ID is stored value inside that chip - you won't be able to read it by some marking - only correct reading will tell you - in ScanMax it is two-wire method.

Use Alignments to create planes and other features, your alignments can be based off the CMM origin or some Base Alignment origin you create. I typically create an alignment based on some features of the model, typically something relative to the center of the model. This alignment doesn't need to be used in any measurements or base alignments. It's just a tool. With these alignments, you can create a plane normal to the alignment in use, then switch the feature to the alignment you want it to be in (Like a base alignment), at this point you will have your I, J, K vectors all calculated by Calypso. Also using the Alignment and the created Plane, you can set individual points where you need them, then once again, switch alignments and the points will have corrected I, J, K vectors. This makes programming easy, even without models.

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I seem to have a bad Chip ID on a specific probe. This Chip ID seems to also know when I am watching trying to find out which probe it is. 😄 How do I relate the Chip ID to an actual probe? I have not had a Chip ID fail in my entire career.

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If that's the problem as @Norbert Bendl stated, then go to Windows services, find MSSQL$SDCO service ( it's name in Service window can be "SQL Server (SDCO)" ) and change from "Start delay" to "Start" You need admin rights to do that.

Usually happens if SQL Server service is not (yet) running. May also happen if Calypso is started too early after PC is booted.

151 Good morning, colleagues, Sometimes, and for no apparent reason, I get the following error when starting Calypso... Can anyone tell me what might be causing this?

Calypso 2015's acis25.exe is using the GPU. I can see this in the Task Manager. Nvidia GeForce GT 520.

I don't think Calypso uses the graphics card. It runs very smoothly even on my laptop with an AMD Ryzen 5 PRO 5650U with Radeon Graphics.

Until a couple of years ago, Spatial offered a freely accessible help page with all available commands. But nowadays this is only available for registered customers. The only other source of information I could find for those commands is at the University of Arizona: http://www-isl.ece.arizona.edu/ACIS-docs/ Note however, that this is somewhat outdated, being made for ACIS R10. Most of the commands will still work, but anything new added is of course missing. The useful commands are to be found under "Scheme Extensions..." in the different chapters.

And you should make sure to always have "Drag Base Alignment" checked if you use it.

I was not looking for that program to have conversions - i hoped i could make easily fixture setups to help colleagues build them once they are disassembled.

I see that you got it working, I get error "Can not initialize CAD Kernel".... seems like license related, but not sure how to take care of that? You able to PM me some more info? Thank you!

Pretty sure it's Q-Dir

The two serve different purposes. The CAD Model Transformation is for correcting the location of the CAD Model in reference to the measurement plan - I typically wouldn't ever touch this after a measurement plan has been defined unless I had some very specific reason to do so (can absolutely break your measurement plan - especially things like Free Forms). The Modify CAD Model is only for correcting the location of the Base Alignment/Model inside the Planner/Simulation - it is needed to be modified to check for machine clearances during simulation.

Thank you for you fast response, Is it better to use the one in Cad Model Transformation? Or the one in the planner menu? Honestly I'm less worried about the distance from the simulation model to the granite being accurate, just raised away so it doesn't cause false collision detections. I just wanted to clarify before i start breaking all my programs lol.

You are correct that you shouldn't transform/rotate the CAD model once you have a measurement plan defined, but the one found in CAD - Modification - CAD Model Transformation is different than the one found inside of Planner - Measurement Plan Simulation - Modify CAD Model. The one in Modify CAD Model is only moving the CAD model in refence to the simulation environment. This is extremely important to ensure that it is at the proper location on the machine (most of the time it is defaulted to the home position of the machine).

@Matt P This is perfect! I didn't realize you could build a list like so to be used in such a way. Here is the complete code (I removed the sections to clean up the measurement plan), but this now has an automatic loop detection based upon the end number of the feature name. 🙂 nameOfElement = "3D Curve - " noOfElements = 4 featureName = getNominal().testPlanGeometry.identifier prefix = "Blisk - Free Form Surface - " loop = mid(featureName,len(prefix) + 1,len(featureName)) loop = val(loop) recallElementsList = "list(" for i = 1 to noOfElements recallElementsList = recallElementsList + qm() + nameOfElement + i + "(" + loop + ")" + qm() + "," next i recallElementsList = mid(recallElementsList,1,(len(recallElementsList) - 1)) recallElementsList = recallElementsList + ")" //display(featureName) //display(loop) //display(recallElementsList) recallElementsList = getParameterNamed(recallElementsList) If you want to keep from the list overwriting for every feature, you can use the following as well. nameOfElement = "3D Curve - " noOfElements = 4 featureName = getNominal().testPlanGeometry.identifier prefix = "Blisk - Free Form Surface - " loop = mid(featureName,len(prefix) + 1,len(featureName)) loop = val(loop) tempRecallList = "list(" for i = 1 to noOfElements tempRecallList = tempRecallList + qm() + nameOfElement + i + "(" + loop + ")" + qm() + "," next i tempRecallList = mid(tempRecallList,1,(len(tempRecallList) - 1)) tempRecallList = tempRecallList + ")" recallElementsList[loop] = getParameterNamed(tempRecallList)

Hello, I am working on getting a Planner laptop set up to where ill be able to create programs on the cmm while the cmm is being ran I believe I have it just about figured out, i got planner to simulate the measurement plan, one problem ive noticed though is that the location of the model in relation to the CMM cad model on the laptop isnt matching the actual setup location of the part on the actual cmm This laptop would also be used to edit programs as well, I saw on another forum post somewhere that it isnt a good idea to move the model after the cmm program has been made, is there a way to match the planner cmm coordinate system to the actual cmm, so the part is where it should be? Right now the coordinate system is too close to the granite, so my probes are going into the floor of the granite when the plan is simulated. I am getting collision detections because of this. Any advice would be appreciated, thank you!

And I did that in an area that was flatter. The problem is that I need actual points and not a plane in some areas. I could create a plane that way, but I would still need to extract the point from that plane to get the point with its IJK. Maybe if I tell it I am making a plane, select one point and then explicitly change the feature type to a point ... when I get a free seat I will try this.