Cone Location Question

[[Ja...]]

I have a cone feature that does not seem to be translating in the X axis with the alignment that it is related to. The X origin in the alignment is set by a plane that has shifted by 0.5 mm, but the actuals for the cone are still being taken based on the nominal location of the plane. Are there special requirements for a cone to keep it located with an alignment?

[[SH...]]

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No clarity in your question, what about other two axis alignment?

[[Ja...]]

The Y and Z axis are controlled by a cylinder in the alignment. Those axis appear to be ok, it just appears that the cone is not moving in X with the alignment when it physically goes to measure the part.

[[To...]]

Hey James, can you post a screen shot of the base alignment window open? Try to get the features in the screen shot, if you can. If you need to hide the model, you can select "show all features" icon, 3rd button from the left on the bottom row.
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[[Da...]]

Maybe you have something else going on here that I can't see but the cone is part of the alignment, so it will translate to zero every time you run the alignment. At least it should. The X axis origin should be at the cone axis. Not sure what's going on here.

[[Ja...]]

This is the alignment I am using for the cone.

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[[Gr...]]

Until we upgrade all our computers to Windows 10, we are still using Calypso 6.6.
Since this is the case, I will check the software download portal to see if there are Service Packs and found service pack 6.6.2400 When reviewing the release notes, specifically Chapter 5-4 Bug Fixes (page 176) I found the following notation
Identifier 111100 Cones are possibly misaligned.
I downloaded and installed this service pack which seems to have fixed the problem we were having with cones.
This might be worthwhile to check out.

[[Ke...]]

James,

If you chose the alignment in the dropdown of the cone feature, then the nominals and actuals shown are in relation to the alignment. (Lets say cone is X1.0, Y0, Z0 from the alignment).

So, if your alignment shifts by 100" in X, you would still only see the data as it relates to your alignment (X1.0, Y0, Z0) not (X101.0, Y0, Z0). To see the difference, select a different alignment in the dropdown of the cone AFTER you measure it to the original cone alignment.

Keith

[[Ja...]]

Thanks Keith, but regardless of what alignment I selected, the cone feature did not translate. I had an applications engineer from Zeiss come and investigate and he came to the same conclusion. He was going to check into it further. Perhaps the service pack Gregory recommended will do the trick. I'm going to give the Zeiss engineer a few more days to check into it.

[[Gr...]]

So as a heads up the problem with the cone we were having was with position and how it created the paths in strategy.
I would extract the cone feature and it would show out of position relative to the base alignment usually in Y.
What was more aggravating it was inverting the cone on the Z axis in measurement path whether we used helix, circle or form lines. It did not mater what solid was used a cone came in at -Z needless to say the measurement paths were interesting.
The service pack resolved this