deviation illustrations

[[Mi...]]

One thing I'm not very good at in Calypso is "illustrating" the problems with a part to a machinist so the can make a correction. I know I've seen some pretty cool graphics showing, say, a free form surface with its deviations exaggerated, like in the attached. How do you make these? I've tried messing around with Graphics Elements and a few other features, but they're pretty... unintuitive. Can someone point me in the right direction?

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[[Me...]]

CAD/Evaluation

[[Cl...]]

Looks like an implant similar to what we make?

[[Mi...]]

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Any tutorials out there on how to use this? I've clicked around a bit before but can't really figure it out.

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Possibly, but it's not mine. I just stole it from the internet.

[[Cl...]]

Mike, my quick answer. CAD > Evaluation. Tick display, I use spheres @ 0.050 diameter. Tick color gradient.
This will give a color scale based on the characteristic tolerance. You can now see plus/minus material conditions.

[[Mi...]]

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Thanks, I'll mess with this in a bit when I have time. Does this show deviation with respect to the Base Alignment? Or just the feature itself? Is there a way to make it show with respect to a secondary alignment?

[[Cl...]]

To which ever alignment the characteristic being evaluated is relative to.
There are dozens of different methods aside from the one I showed you.
Roberto Flores has some good suggestions for this tool as well.

[[Mi...]]

I guess part of the problem is the version I'm running 5.4. I should have mentioned that earlier.
A tutorial I just found shows the evaluation windows having a "results" tab; mine has an "actuals" tab in its place, and no "display" box to check.

Do older versions just not have the same functionality?

[[Cl...]]

Not sure?

[[Ro...]]

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5.4 should be fine, i am almost certain that when we bought this machine 7-8 years ago it had 5.4 in it, and ive been doing profile plots since the first program i wrote at this job.
I think 'actual' means the same thing as 'result'.

I like cylinders at .010 inch and 50x scale personally.

(Note anything past this place does not help anything, its just me being a whiny baby)
Another case where PCD does something better than Calypso. In PCD the arrows are always visible, they are never hidden behind cad model skin. even adjacent surfaces that don't have anything to do with the profile are transparent, calypso only allows you to see thru the skins being evaluated, so im forced into wireframe views that can be confusing when printed out. in calypso if you have a minus material condition and the cad model active, you cant see the deviation, you can only see the deviation of heavy material condition because its above the skin.

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[[Ro...]]

Or maybe it was 5.7 when we first bought this machine........... what was being distributed in 2012?

[[Mi...]]

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The plot button is greyed out?

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[[Ro...]]

Double click on the "?Prifile1?" and it should open up, make your changes and click "Save local view" which is the view currently on your screen and then that plot button should no longer be greyed out.

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[[Ro...]]

The plot button just calculates the result and brings up the page that prints out with your report

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[[Mi...]]

Alright, finally got it. Thanks much everyone.