Quick probe qualification program question

[[Lu...]]

Hello, I have been doing some research into probe qualification programs due to some doubts i have on the qualification program i currently run weekly. My main question is that i noticed whenever i run the program i do a 5 point pickup on the reference sphere as a manual alignment. Could someone tell me if the manual alignment would overwrite the "reference sphere position" i do before i run the qualification program? I am worried that i might be calibrating the probes off of 5 points instead of the "reference sphere position" instead.

Secondary question is that in the instruction sheet i am reading about how to create a probe qualification program it says to not add a probing system qualification characteristic for the masterprobe if the reference sphere gets moved around. Our reference sphere does definitely move around and so i am wondering if that causes any issues whenever the qualification program is ran even though I reference the sphere position before (which also goes back to my first question)

we just finished the yearly calibration on the cmm, and i wanted to make sure when i qualify all the probes i wouldn't be messing everything up. If these are actually problems i will probably have to make a new qualification program. All responses are appreciated, thank you!

[[To...]]

Did the instruction sheet tell you to create a base alignment?  Typically, "most" don't create a base alignment.

If your ref sphere moves around a lot, I would leave it out and plan on doing a ref sphere pos manually.  Or, leave it in and only select the systems you want to qualify and run Current Selection.

 

[[Lu...]]

Creating a base alignment wasnt brought up in that instruction sheet, so i was getting worried that it would use the base allignment for the sphere position instead of the "reference sphere position" in the probing system qualification menu

[[Je...]]

you don´t need any alignment in a qualification program, I would leave it out

like Tom said, you can do a manually sphere qualification before starting the program, then it is equal, if you leave the sphere qualification characteristic in or not

Edited April 4, 2025