Rotating a Measurement Plan - What you see is sometimes not what you get

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Thought I'd save time by adapting a program from existing.  I applied transformations to all features on a round part lying with axis horizontal to axis vertical.  (Using a little known procedure with Utility Alignments and the 'Keep position' checkbox)

All appeared well and even ran well except for whenever a CNC exit from Clearance cube was called for.  Despite me updating all Clearance planes to +Z Calypso insists on exiting in the +Y direction.

Only by abandoning that Plan and copy pasting everything into a new blank Measurement Plan was this issue completely resolved.

It would be nice if Zeiss added a 'Rotate Measurement Plan' function similar to the 'Mirror Measurement Plan' advanced command.

Hope that helps anybody.

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I fear that won't happen, since Calypso is already capable of measuring a part at any rotation if the appropriate styli are used and the base alignment is fully constrained. Using this capability may require some brain acrobatics by the operator, but it works.

Mirroring a program is another story, because it can't be achieved by just using different styli and a new alignment.

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It sounds like you had 1 of 2 issues.

The Axis selections in the Base Alignment were wrong (Happens, especially when doing this you may not notice what it's done)

You never went to Resources> Utilities> Set Base Alignment to Zero... so the software was still referencing the alignment prior to the flip.

I have also done it Norberts way.. to be clear what he's saying is the Trihedron of the Base Alignment does not have to match the machine..... I have a machine that's longer in X than in Y so we actually load the machine from the +X Side... The "Front" stylus on that machine is at +X not -Y. This allows us to have the same program on two different machines, rotated 90 degrees from eachother.

Took a bit to wrap my head around it at first, but it's actually easier when you stop thinking about it.