Smallest Enclosing Circle from Multiple Circular Scans

[[Ma...]]

Hi everyone,

I’m using CALYPSO 2024 (7.8) and I have six circular scan paths. From each path I want to use one representative point, and from these six points I need CALYPSO to calculate the smallest possible circle that fits them.

What’s the correct way to generate this smallest‐enclosing circle from just these 6 points in CALYPSO?

Thanks for any help!

[[Jö...]]

Hallo Marco,

Du holst dir einen Kreis, und rufst die 6 Punkte in den Kreis zurück. Dies machst Du in dem du auf Sollwerteingabe gehst, dann Punkte-Rückruf. In dem darauf folgenden Fenster wählst du deine 6 Punkte aus deinen Gemessenen Kreisen aus. Bei deinen gemessenen Kreisen gehst du auf Pfad öffnen und wählst dort die Punkte aus die du benötigst. Hoffe du verstehst was ich meine.

Gruß Jörg

[[Ke...]]

I would recall all of the points into a single (inside diameter) circle , and use the Outer Tangential  evaluation

[[DW...]]

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 Recall the points into a circle, and your evaluation of this recalled circle would be a minimum circumscribed element. This evaluation is the smallest circle that will encompass the three most extreme outside points. This is a functional diameter evaluation, like placing the smallest ring gauge over a shaft or outside diameter. 

[[Ky...]]

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 Are you sure you don't mean maximum inscribed? https://portal.zeiss.com/knowledge-base?id=420544.

 

"Maximum Inscribed" means it is the largest circle that does not contain any of the points. "Minimum circumscribed" means it is the smallest that contains all of the points.

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 Ah I didn't even look at his picture, all I saw was "smallest‐enclosing" and immediately thought he wanted to enclose all of the outside points. Yes, max inscribed on the inside diameter is the the largest circle not containing any points, functioning like the largest pin gage fitting into a bore.