Clearance Planes

[[Da...]]

Daft question - I have a clearance box around my part, when I move to the clearance it is taking the distance from the edge of the probing system (VAST gold). I see why, but my styli is shorter then the edge of it and I want to speed things up a bit. Anyone know a solution?

[[SH...]]

cannot really understand what you are talking about, but you can control your clearance distance and retract distance inside the measurement plan tab menu.

[[Da...]]

I’ll post a photo shortly

[[Da...]]

Apologise for the terrible redactions. So basically you can see the edge of the VAST is at 7mm from the clearance cube, I want that to be 7mm from the styli. I feel secondary clearance is the way but not sure

[[SH...]]

Are you working with simulation??

[[Da...]]

David, checkout this post/thread -> viewtopic.php?f=13&t=1311&p=8666#p8651

[[To...]]

Sub-clearance planes would work well.

Otherwise, on circular features, you can use the +Z clearance plane as long as the clearance distance is adequate to clear the part as you come down. Same for some linear features that have a clearance distance direction away from the part. Other linear features may require a position point before and after the measuring strategy.