Pallet vs Macro

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I'm doing a demo/inspection for a injection molding company making plastic bottles. The mold creates 8 bottles at a time, 32 runs, 3 times, or 768 total bottles to be inspected. I was planning to measure 8 bottles at a time using a pallet but am now thinking of using a single program to measure 8 bottles to allow the data from the 8 bottles to be compiled into 1 file.

Does anyone have any info on the use of macros? Are macros a good option for this?

The customer provided me with an inspection spreadsheet. They are showing Run 1, then cavity numbers 4 thru 11. Does the term "cavity" mean 1 location on the mold? Why does it start at 4 and not 1?

bottle setup.jpgScreenshot 2021-10-21 090823.jpg

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If you're thinking about keeping it in the same program, consider using secondary alignments offset from the Base Alignment that are positioned in each nest. Copy and Paste Contents for each cavity. Then use the Keep Position function to move each cavity features/characteristics to it's fixture nest.

That's how I programmed at an injection molding facility before working where I am now. I did it this way because a) it kept it all in one file and report, since the parts all came from one mold and b) prior to Pallet Optimizer, palletizing parts did a bunch of stylus system changes and I was using an O-Inspect which took a lot of extra time.

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Probably because there exists a second mold with cavities 1 to 3, or even two molds (e.g. one prototype with 1 cavity, and another one with 2 cavities).
While it's unusual to make a mold with only 3 cavities (standard is an even number) it's not unthinkable. This seems to be a blow mold, I have no experience with these.

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I'd probably use Laura's method.
However, I've attached some good stuff on macro's.

Macro_Overview[1].pdfCalypso using_macros.pdf

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I'm in agreement.... Thanks for the docs.