Simulation of measurement programs

[[Ma...]]

Hi,

I know that Zeiss has a simulation for checking measurement programs. I used it briefly some time ago, and from what I remember it didn’t work perfectly (that was around 10 years ago).

Do you have any experience with how it looks nowadays? We often receive programs from the supplier that contain errors. I’m wondering how this issue could be solved.

[[Ma...]]

It will depend on what errors you are encountering.

[[No...]]

I use it since 2009 and it hasn't improved substantially since then. The main improvement over the years, from my point of view, was that you can place the part in an orientation that is different from that of the machine coordinate system. Collision detection works quite well on the lowest speed setting, but I still wouldn't trust it blindly. But it still has many litle quirks you have to get used to, like the stylus moving happily right through the granite after returning from a stylus change in the rack. Or the machine axes being able to travel way past their limits in each direction.

For me it's just a tool to quickly check for collisions and for this it works ok. I never actually used or needed all the fancy stuff like e.g. the stylus rack creator.

Edited September 9, 2025

[[Ma...]]

I use it all the time to write programs. I would say your programs are 95% there. You will need to maybe modify a few things when you put it on the CMM. If you get your part mounted on your CMM for programming in simulation, it's even better.