Can you "Calibrate" Simulation?

[[Ro...]]

My Simulation is all jacked up, is there any way to fix it?

FYI the probe was created years ago the manual way, by taking hits on the qual sphere.

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[[Ma...]]

I would just re-create the stylus system in the offline seat. That should fix it. The stylus system would then be shown as calibrated.
If you didn't want to do that you would have to know the offset value to each stylus, a near impossible task. If you knew these values you could edit the system.


Mark

[[Ro...]]

I just can't bring myself to blow out & recreate a stylus that is linked to so many programs (several hundred) just for better simulation. Ill just have to turn off the vertical arm graphic and deal with it

[[Ma...]]

You should be able to create the stylus system in Stylus Creator separate from your on-line seat. Just save the Stylus System into the Simulation directory. When you load the SSC file load the one out of the simulation directory. This will allow you the ability to simulate using the correct stylus system.

Planner should run independent of the on-line seat and you should not be overwriting your active stylus system. You may want to try it on a test system. Create a throwaway stylus system and calibrate on the CMM then go into Stylus System Creator and create it there. Now import the simulation stylus system SSC into Planner write a test program and then run it on the CMM with the test probe you calibrated and see what happens.

Mark

[[Mi...]]

That has happened to me a few times in my sim of the rds head. It usually happens to me when I do something in a feature that confuses calypso or corrupts a feature. A couple times I got lucky and figured out what feature it was and deleted it and all was right with the universe but a couple times I had to delete the program and start over. If you open another program and run the stylus sim does it do the same thing or does it work fine. If it works good in another program it might not be the stylus but the program.

[[Ro...]]

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I thought you might be on to something, so i created a fresh new program, loaded some junk cad model and........ same thing.

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[[No...]]

You say the probe was created years ago by probing the physical sphere. Are you using simulation on the same PC that is connected to the physical CMM? Or is it a seperate offline seat where you imported the "real" probe data?

My point is: At the time when that probe was created, was the master probe length the same as it is now in Planner? Because in Planner you ususally need to import a SSC master probe and if it's length doesn't match that of the master probe "years ago", that might explain the offset you're seeing.

[[Ro...]]

I think Norbit is on the right track.......
So the end of the XT arm is right at the center of the master sphere ball, so somewhere the length must be set to Zero, but i also see the length set at 100mm in my probe changer rack, hmmmmm.

So now i need to find out where to change the length (or offset) for planner.
I looked around in stylus system management and don't see anything different than my online seat, also dont see anything i can change that would affect the length. (XY&Z are all Zero)

And BTW this a dedicated offline programming seat, not the computer where the probe was created.
But at one point simulation used to work, i just cant remember exactly the last time it worked correctly but ill guess 4 months ago, and nothing major that i'm aware of has changed in that time.

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[[No...]]

IF your problem is related to the master probe length (which is just an assumption by now!) then changing the MP length now won't help you, as it will affect all your probes in the same way. What you can try is to correct the Z position of all styli in question by a certain offset. Problem is that you can't measure in simulation how big that offset is exactly.
Be sure to back up your original probe data before you try this...