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Norm angle is correct - at least it should be 0 or 360 - it's telling in which direction is Z axis of feature pointing.

Green arrows are measured points - are those recalled measured points?

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No, the actual direction that the probe travels is perpendicular to the edge that it is measuring. It is just the on-screen image that shows the vector as being off. Not sure why it shows different than it actually travels.

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Is the line constructed from two points? Or is it a measured line feature? If constructed from

two points, go into the evaluation settings of each point and change it in the drop-down on the lower right.

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The "Line Auto Path" is what is in the measurement "Strategy". Instead of it being two individual points it is shown as a "Line Auto Path" but since the machine is not capable of scanning, the line is comprised of two points with a step width of .102" in between them.

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Here is a circle from the same program. It has the same issue. The probe physically travels in the correct direction (normal to the surface) but on screen the actual points shown appear normal to the X,Y,Z coordinate system.

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, which version of Calypso and service pack are you running? You've mentioned it's an older one from before the era of caliper distances. You can find this information on the lower-right corner of the main menu or under the "?" dropdown > "About". 

There were some Calypso versions where service patches were released to address normal vector display errors through the ACIS engine. ACIS is like the graphical renderer for Calypso and though it's technically "its own thing," it's very closely intertwined with Calypso.

If an ACIS bug is the source of this issue rather than anything in the programming approach, the solution could be as simple as getting a service patch. If you're already up-to-date on your version though, it could be an uphill battle. For one, very old Calypso versions are out of official support, and second, knowledge of how ACIS and Calypso interact isn't something that very many people have.

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Interesting, that might give us a path forward. On the first service pack for that version (5.6.0400, don't ask me why Zeiss does their service pack numbering the way they do), there was a bugfix entitled "10504: CAD Model vector corrected". If that is indeed what you need, it'll have been implemented in every 5.6 service pack after 5.6.04; ideally we can get you up to the fully updated one, which I think is 5.6.24.

The next question is where to get that service pack, and admittedly I'm at a loss here. It's not on the Zeiss Portal, but I'm willing to bet someone within (or without) Zeiss has a copy. If you don't get a response from a Zeissian here, I'd recommend reaching out about getting it.

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