Angled part

[[Ha...]]

Hello everyone. I am quite new to Calypso, and this is my first experience with an angled part. When I'm taking points, the probe is hitting them at an angle. I'm quite certain embarrassingly easy fix, but can someone help me out?

[[Ca...]]

Hi Harold! 

When you say the probe is hitting them at an angle, do you mean the probe is not square to the part? That is okay. If you are measuring a line or a plane or a circle or another standard geometry, the calculated measurement will compensate for the probe radius. Is the probe actually shanking on the part? If that is the case, we would need to update the navigation or vector information for the feature you are measuring. 

Are you instead taking individual points on the part? If it is an individual point, you would want to make sure that you have the correct point type selected. These can be selected inside the point then the Evaluation button. A detailed explanation of point types can be found here: https://portal.zeiss.com/knowledge-base?id=1007796

[[Ha...]]

Thank you, Caitlin for this information. I'm still learning. Yes, when I take individual points for certain measurements the probe is traveling at an angle into the part. The part is fixtured in the exact orientation shown above on the CAD model

[[DW...]]

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 Can you screenshot your base alignment?

 

[[Ha...]]

Hey DWC, here is the base alignment. It's not highlighting but the plane is the flat portion on both of the legs

 

[[Ma...]]

This looks like ordinary point - better to use surface point - by clicking on a model you will get a point with correct vector.
For correct evaluation i almost always use plane point.

You can either make new correct point, or edit nominal vectors.

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Please share the technical drawing if you can.

The base alignment +x seems incorrect.

Therefore, the point is positioned in the +X direction.