Measurement Plan repeats all the measurements 6 times

[[Ve...]]

Hello, we don't have the PCM option on the machine or the offline seat. There are no "loops" set on any of the characteristics. The define macros screen is blank. Every time we run a program, it measures the features 6 times each. How do we get it to measure them one time each? Thanks

[[Da...]]

Does it run the complete program, then starts over from the beginning, OR does it run the first feature 6 times before advancing to the next feature?

[[Ve...]]

It runs through all the features, then repeats all of them. The features turn green as they are probed. once all of them have been run six times each, all of the characteristics turn green.

[[Er...]]

Either your Characteristic tree is looped, shown as (1,6,1) under the tabs for CMM, Meas.. Plan, Char..
If so right click > loop > delete.

Or you have "repeat measurement" on. Plan > Repeat measurement..

[[Ve...]]

Thanks for your replies, Here is pic of settings, I can find nothing with loop set.
Loop Start - end - step is blank for all the char. With no char highlighted, it is blank. Repeat not checked. Also tried checking repeat and setting max at 1.

[[Er...]]

Intresting... but then I have no clue. 😃

[[Ve...]]

thank you for trying...i entered a help ticket

[[Is...]]

other two possibilities (if the program was not developed by you):
- Check the loops in the measurement strategies of the features.
- Open the inspection file with the notepad and search for loop or measure PCM functions:
i.e.

measure(FeatureName[,LoopIndex])

for i=1 to 4 [step 2] 
... 
next i


repeat 
... 
until i>10

[[SH...]]

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Please don't mistake me, after reading your post I feel like reading fairy tale stories....

Did you tried Israel ideas??

[[Da...]]

Just a thought, does your base alignment have a loop ? It wouldn't cause this but....

One more thing, I see you have multiple alignments. Is there a chance you have features called out in an order that Calypso has to recheck an alignment in order to " over ride "a previous alignment ? I'm pretty sure this wouldn't produce the results you are getting, but never hurts to check 😉

[[Ve...]]

Hello Israel, i don't see any loops associated with the features. code attached.

inspection.txt

[[Ve...]]

Hello Dave, the extra alignments are derived from the base alignment. if there is a loop on the base alignment, i cant find it.

[[Ow...]]

Sometimes it's easy to not see the forest for all the trees in the way.
I don't have access to Calypso right now but, Go to plan, repeat measurement.

[[Ve...]]

Pic is from current setting. Also tried checking the box and setting the Max to 1. that did not work either. Another clue might be "in simulation it does not repeat" on the machine it does.

[[Ow...]]

Yeah, I didn't mean to sound sarcastic but, thought it was worth a try.
Sometimes a program gets an algorithmic glitch in it and there have been a few times in the last 14 years that I've had to recreate the whole program anew to fix an issue.Sometimes quicker than waiting for support 🙄

[[Is...]]

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Definitely not in the inspection file,
other Chance: What about in the inspset file?

[[Da...]]

Any chance you're using autorun?

[[Ja...]]

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It looks like you are not looping your alignment 1, but if you right click and select loop without having any characteristic highlighted, what do you get? I get "loop-cfs" .

[[Mi...]]

Hmm...I'm curious what happens if you turn "repeat measurement" on, but set the max to 1.

If this fixes it, it would probably be a bug, but it might be worth a shot.

Also, was this a program you wrote? Or did you get it from elsewhere?

[[Ve...]]

thanks for all your ideas. been a good learning experience. i checked the code, all the characteristics, the repeat run for loops. even set the repeat run max to one. the one thing i forgot to check was the base alignment. the loop was there. again, thanks everyone for your help!

[[Jo...]]

Hi Verl,



why repeats 6 times rather than 10 times 🤣