Printing report in inches

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Our autorun is set to mm, but we have three parts which our customer require 100% inspection on and they want the reports shipped with the parts as well.
I would like the production to print the reports right away, but that is not a possibility because the report come out in mm instead of inches.

Is there a clever trick so solve this issue?

Right now I am opening every single part and printing them in inches. That is just boring and a waste of resources.

[[Me...]]

If you have a small amount of features that need to be in inches then maybe you can add a "Result Element" converting mm to Inches (Result/25.4)

Or the easier method is to go to "Resources" -> Characteristics Setting Editor..." -> "Units" -> Length Unit"
From that you can change the entire inspection plan to output in inches or millimeters.

[[Ro...]]

If you have PCM you could simply output the inch values in the comment section, which would show up in the report.
The formula i used to transform inch to mm on my sample # 11 Dat C Distance is
"Result in Millemeters"+cr()+formatL( getActual("# 11 Dat C Distance").actual*25.4)

to change a similar comment from MM to inch it would be reversed

"Result in Inch"+cr()+formatL( getActual("# 11 Dat C Distance").actual/25.4)

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[[Ow...]]

Yeah, unfortunately without PCM or using Andre's Result Element idea, there's not much other that can be done as far as I know.

I submitted a request once to put a button on the start menu to choose results in inch, MM or both, but, apparently it never got anywhere.With 94% of the world using the metric system, it's probably not going to be given much thought.

You could report to Excel and then have the numbers converted with a macro or a quick formula but, that would probably require as much time as just re-running the actuals for another report.

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Programs have between 10-20 pages, so the "Result Element" won't be a good solution.

The other solution I will test out tomorrow if it is working in auto-run.

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Don't know what is the easiest. Getting Zeiss to change something or making the 6% use the metric system 🙂

[[Me...]]

It's absolutely absurd that a program designed to collect, analyze, and report data can't easily report that data in different units of measurement. It's embarrassing. 😱

[[La...]]

I'm confused, where does it say anything about printing specific characteristics in inches? It sounds like you're looking for the full report in inches.

In the Measurement Plan editor you can select the Units item from the drop down list and set that specific measurement plan to inches, even if your global settings in Extras > Settings > Environment are set to mm.

[[Me...]]

But what if you want to report specific characteristics in different units in the same report? That should be a simple thing to do. Converting units is a fixed calculation and ridiculously easy to program. You shouldn't have to either have an entire report in only 1 type of units or have to do any sort of "workaround" to get varying unit results from a program designed to report results.

IMO, you should be able to highlight a characteristic, right click, and choose the units you want reported if it's not the default. Angles in radians, decimal degrees, etc, MM, inch, meters, whatever. It changes nothing in the underlying computations of the software and is a simple conversion.

[[Ro...]]

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You think that's bad, the competitor program not only puts the Feature Control Frame in the report, you actually build the Characteristic by assigning datum letters to features, then build the FCF including any modifiers or any other unusual distribution that may be present.
And get this, their TP icon is live, like a target, so you can see at a glance what direction your holes might be off!
Ooh, and you can change any given characteristic from MM to Inch just by clicking a button........... sniff

[[Me...]]

Yep. XactMeasure is awesome. How about simultaneous requirements? Piece of cake. No need to create a bunch of separate alignments.

Don't get me wrong. Calypso has some awesome capabilities and I support the program. But man... it has some really inferior things in it that should be basic capabilities, not work arounds.