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It's only for the first time - if you place fixture on machine again on "same" spots you can run it normally - only if you move it elsewhere you would need to adjust it's position by manual run. So you don't need to do it on daily basis or shift.

Thank you too @Jörg Apfelbach. Enjoy.

Heute ist mein letzter Tag, und ich möchte mich auf diesem Weg bei allen herzlich bedanken, die mir hier im Forum mit Rat und Tat zur Seite gestanden haben. Für die Unterstützung, den Austausch und die vielen hilfreichen Beiträge bin ich sehr dankbar. Ich wünsche euch alles Gute, bleibt gesund und macht weiter so! Vielen Dank für die gemeinsame Zeit. 😊

Thank you, I will try.

Create a loop over the inspection: Go to Characteristics -> right click in empty Space (mark no characteristic) -> Loop

I know how to do it in autorun. In editor you can also do it, but i don't know if it will save all pdfs

Hello, I need help about inserting loop in a program: I want to control a piece 5 consecutive times and have 5 different report saved in a folder. How can I do ? Thanks in advance.

You can add notes during the project template creation (file -> create template from project): They are visible in the template selection:

it looks like calypso 2027 is BROKEN, I guess i will wait for the service pack 1 or 2

Do I dare ask if the price is following the geometric dimensions and therefore be 60 % higher? 😉

I think I’ll go back to 2025. The "traffic light" indicator often disappears, and when I try to bring it back, I get error messages. Also, a program written in 2023—which includes CAD analysis and always ran smoothly in 2025—no longer works in 2027. It crashes at the end with an error, and I have to force-close it via the Task Manager.

Yes i run it with autorun on both machines. okay now i understand what you mean by saying do it manually, problem is that the colleagues who are working with it dont have that much time to do it manually. Thanks for your help Martin

I am trying for the first time to create a qualification program. I have a Vast XXT. I am following the instructions in a pdf that has been posted here a few times and it states to change the mode from Qualify Passive Stylus to Geometry Re-Qualification. However when I try to do this on my RC-CAA probes, everything is greyed out. Does that mean you cannot change it and it must remain Qualify Passive Stylus? This seems odd considering that when you qualify it without it being part of a program, it does allow you to select Geo Re-Qual. Also, what is the RS 2 column? It says below that it is for Dynamic Reference Sphere for Navigator only. I don't know what Navigator is, but it has a reference sphere listed in that column for only this probe. The other probes do not list anything in that column.

I recently had a problem that took me way too long to figure out. I had a part that measured great except for the few features that were measured with the angled probe. I beat my head against it and eventually discovered that the issue was the calibration with the regular straight 3mm probe on a 75 mm stem. It was off by almost 0.03". I think that what had happened was that somebody had not revalued the reference sphere before calibration. The interesting thing is that the numbers on the calibration were great. It looked like a good calibration. Good sigma etc. With roughly 100 features measured using over 10 probe orientations of basically every approach angle with that probe it agreed with itself. Holes on one side of the part were directly in line with holes on the other side of the part. I would expect that to not be the case. The Y direction was off by almost 0.03" (not to mention the issues in X though Z was good). So when I am probing from the +X side vs probing from the -X side with a generic probe, if the reference sphere location was wrong by 0.03" I would expect the holes on the two sides to be off by 0.06" relative to eachother. I think the CAA just does a ton of magic to bring those into alignment so that anything with that probe is basically good to other things with that same probe. But if you use another probe with a regular calibration ... especially a good calibration ... the two probes will disagree by the offset in the reference sphere location, or about 0.03" in this case. Does that sound right? Does anybody else have more insight or experience with this? I cannot afford the cmm time to truly test the theory.

@Robert Frisch I am having this also on 7.8 - i do change acis process to High priority

Well the first simulation went smoothly. Went under a different machine tab, to try and run another one, and got this. I double checked, and I do have the correct profile, in nvidia control panel selected.

Testing out simultion now, just to see how it works. First thing I noticed, that my cad model changed in look right away, when starting the simulation. If I cancel it goes back to the view I started with. All the boundry lines disappeared. It's like it changed the view quality, dynamically, to avoid overtaxing the vram on my GPU. If that is the intent, and working properly, I like that. I can program and see the cad clearly when programming, but visual quality means nothing as long as the boundries are correct, for simulation.

https://www.zeiss.com/metrology/en/explore/events/webinars/2026/duramax-8-5-5-flexible-shop-floor-metrology.html?utm_source=eblast&utm_medium=invitation&utm_campaign=GL_IQS_WB_Dec26_8665_DuraMax-855-Launch_US&utm_content=registration&mkt_tok=NzgxLUVYTi02ODQAAAGlS3f9oxGL7XaOqqWJszfg3oPSSA4nqdavomaS5ldVtLdP0g_jbuzyVTSOEN44vIgelVx7AKZs3j74S1RJ4LB8JpbarmmFdDHMEkBdePGyyaIb

Calypso 2027 is online. Careful! There is still plenty of room for improvement! Should the new drivers for the camera and DOTSCAN also be installed?

Yea it is very hideous. They got it right for the features tab and such, but the rest is too dark for black and too bright on the white. Guess it was too hard to look at dark mode for other software, and come closer to that, instead of some weird high contrast black/white from generic windows themes. Yea I am experiencing the same with rotation.

Agree Richard. The sphere I have now is at 135 and 135. One of the probes will not qualify due it being at 30 degree. Im going to get a straight shaft probe as I do not know if I can rotate this one without throwing everything off. Going down roads ive never been!!!

Just tested it and seems marginally better than the dark mode from "special menu" in previous releases. The other things I've noticed is that the model rotates weirdly when holding RMB. I've opened the same plan in 2025 and the model rotates as they did for the past 15 years. So they've definitely changed something. Also there seems to be a weird input lag when rotation the model, it's smooth but slow. I've only tested in on the Offline PC, but I wonder how it would behave on different hardware configurations. I'm not brave enough to put it on production PCs just yet.

@Daniel Scott, I'm curious to hear more about the second part of your post, the LineScan for profile strategy. If appropriate, what type of parts and materials are you planning to inspect with a LineScan? Have you had a chance to converse with Zeiss about the application of this laser line scanner on your parts? Thanks for sharing about this.