Lock Inspection Programs - Operator

[[Ja...]]

Hi all

I have been asked to setup certain programs to be able to be ran on night shift by operators who have no experience on the Zeiss CMM. How do I lockdown the menus/programs to make them so they are 'set and go'. At the minute I have the 3D model open, and list of features and characteristics on the side, which can be easily 'clicked' into. Also, it only takes a click on the model, and it extracts a feature which the CMM will try and measure. 

Literally want it to be 'idiot' proof so to speak - run a proven program and that's it.

Thank you

Jack

[[Cl...]]

Place the programs in autorun. with the permissions set for the operator just run the program.

[[DW...]]

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 Autorun is your friend here but I am more alarmed that your company is risking tens of thousands of dollars in CMM damage with wholly untrained operators. I do not like Autorun (but it definitely has it's purpose) because I want everyone to be able to see what's happening behind the scenes. At my last job, I set the permissions for each shift so they could see all the features and characteristics etc, but had no permissions to save anything if they did happen to change something.

[[Ja...]]

Thanks Guys, sorry to clarify I mean obviously they will be trained in CMM operation; just not software side of things. I don't want people to be able to 'accidentally' change anything. 

Is autorun easy to setup?

[[Cl...]]

Search on the forum. There is I believe an attachment on how to set up autorun.

[[Cl...]]

Very simple. I figured it out on my own. If I can do it, anyone can 🙂

 

[[Ja...]]

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Haha okay I'll have a look, cheers. 

[[Cl...]]

I can't find my copy of the instruction for setting up autorun. Otherwise, I'd gladly share it.

[[Ma...]]

Here are a couple instructions I had saved that might get you started.

Calypso - Autorun.pdfFetching info... ETSE Zeiss AutorunUserSetup 2014 updated_0.pdfFetching info...

[[Ch...]]

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would this happen to show how to set up a working pallet program? 

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Autorun_Guide_2019.pdfFetching info...

AutoRun_Creating a Pallet.pptxFetching info...

[[Ja...]]

Appreciate the PDF guides gents, big help.

 

I've got something set up, just sorting the privileges out for the users. 

 

Just a quick question, is there a way I can make manual alignment permanently ticked? So basically when Operator clicks 'Run' - its straight away asks for the alignment? Also how do people simplify alignments in autorun? I've never really looked into table co-ordinate systems/pallets etc. 

As you can guess I'm really trying to simplify this. Open user information for setup, click run and then simple alignment. 

Thanks so far for the help again all, appreciated as always.

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Dedicated fixtures and start alignment with only 1 point if possible.

[[Ja...]]

I know on other CMM's we have set up alignments which instruct the operator to move the probe to the centre of the part, press okay - the machine then pulls the XYZ position from the system, and from that we create a theoretical point, origin XYZ, creating an initial 'datum'. The machine then goes into CNC mode and measures the plane, circle etc relative to that initial 'theoretical point'. So all the operator is doing is moving the probe into position and hitting okay. 

Can this be replicated in Calypso?

[[Ma...]]

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 If you really need on every start to do manual alignment, then change your features to be manually measured - ideally if it's on start alignment.

Otherwise i think you can not force that to be checked all the time.

I observed that on all our pallet programs you can not either check manual alignment in autorun. Also i remember that on definition of alignment you can check "manual alignment"- not sure how that works.

[[Ja...]]

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 there's no choice at the moment, we have a variety of parts that go on and no permanent set positioning for the fixtures, so the machine won't know exactly where the part is each time its taken off. 

 

Calibration is another one.....Sphere needs referencing with master every time, whereas on other CMM machines, we have a 'fixed' position on the CMM which is stored in a subprogram, that is loaded so that when a calibration cycle is ran, the probes no exactly where the reference sphere is positioned. 

[[Ma...]]

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 Then the only option would be editing programs to use start alignment where features will be touched manually by going to "Resources ➝
Measurement Plan Editor Features" -> Man CNC mode and selecting features to be done by MAN - it will always ask for manual probing.

[[Da...]]

Most Calypso programs have a programmer and an operator mode; just password-protect the programmer mode and only allow him to log on as an operator. Not certain about Calypso, but in operator mode on PC-DMIS you COULD modify the program while it was open, but could not save it.

I used to correct an assistant manager's glaring program errors each time I opened one specific program, and people wondered why only MY runs found issues that others did not....