Lost X,Y,Z position of all RDS probes and cant requalify them.

[[Pe...]]

Found a mildly infuriating problem.

Running simulation and all the sudden all my RDS probes acquired odd values in the X, Y and Z positions.  It started visually showing the stylus and head something like 6 inches off the part, but still gives good nominal  feature values after simulation.

I try to requalify my probe.  First, it says that I cant do it because its going to shank out on the reference sphere or its at the wrong angle.  Wierd because Ive been simulating the same probe for years.  So I grab the master probe, set the reference sphere location, then try again and it works.

But now I have completely different XYZ values that dont make any sense.  I hit requalify again, it does its 12 angles, and then a completely different result:

Same probe 3 times in a row.  Not entirely arbitrary because 5.232 seems to be repeating in various places.  

 

Any thoughts?

[[Ri...]]

Show screen shots of the stylus geometry from the Stylus Management dialog box for each stylus.

[[Pe...]]

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I think I got just about everything relevent in there.  If I hit the qualify stylus button, then all the numbers change.

 

Edit: I do have a work around for now.  If I delete all the rds systems from the management, and reimport the ssc file, the fresh probe work.  But if I hit the qualify then the problem comes back.  Also it didnt affect any of the fixed 5 point stars, only rds probes.

Edited October 2, 2025

[[Ri...]]

What does your RDSCAA MasterProbe information show?

This is mine for a standard RDSCAA MasterProbe and TL3 Sensor.

Also shown is my MasterProbe after qualification for Planner.

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Looks pretty simular to yours.

The master probe I use looks a bit different since it is not qualified as an RDSCAA.  I wasnt actually aware that you could do that even - Is there a reason/benefit to it?

 

 

 

[[Ri...]]

I do not know if there is a benefit.

When I imported it, I selected RDS CAA. 

What I do notice is your X and Z are both 0.0000.