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@Dave Yeagly, Calypso utilizes your GPU and single-thread processing. Read/Write speeds from your storage drive also make a noticeable performance difference, and NVMe SSD drives work well in this regard. Keep in mind that your P5000 GPU is ten years old. Computer hardware ages similar to dog years, so your GPU can be viewed as a 70 year-old component. Calypso's CAD engine works surprisingly well with modern components.

I think you can scan it as curves and then measure their distance - one is inside other is outside. Otherwise i don't know if you can make intersection of torus and line or torus and plane to obtain circles - then intersection of line from their centers to obtain points at wall.

I got it wrong - it's one-wire where you have only two contacts as "+/-" and using parallel connection with resistor you can read it's value

I have a part that is a tube, the print wants us to measure wall thickness. What is the best way? I started out using FreeForm, then hoped to draw the info into a torus (OD and ID) then report the difference for the wall thickness of D2 for each and divide by 2 using a result element. In simulation, Torus to Torus it works. In real life, it not works. 😁 Im guessing I could do a bunch of symmetry points for the wall thickness.

I have one calibration program with a VAST XT Gold sensor; we automatically qualify the MasterProbe. The Reference Sphere (RS) is always in the same place on this setup (It's on a Micura 5x5x5). The RS is removed when running products and put in place when running qualification every Monday. It is located on an Inspection Arsenal plate. We do not have to manually reference the RS, it is all automatic. We use default search distance that is setup when you define the MasterProbe.

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.