Navigator: Yes or No?

[[To...]]

This post won't mean much to users with XXT sensors but I know there are fair amount of you with active sensors.  What is the general opinion of Navigator?  Do you rely on Navigator 100% of the time?  What are the pros and cons?  How do you apply Navigator philosophy to planes and lines?  Do Navigator strategies comply with the suggested filter settings, i.e. minimum number of points.  

[[Cl...]]

I was told that that this function is for very large parts?

[[To...]]

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That was always my understanding but now I have larger round parts.

[[Ch...]]

It only activates for cylindrical parts is my understanding.  I'll need to test this, but it doesn't activate for planes or lines does it?

I really don't use it.  Not that I don't like it, but it makes correlating with suppliers difficult.  I want to know exactly how fast, how many points, and what angle range I'm using. 

The following would just make me sound silly:

Supplier: "What's your measurement strategy for this circle"

Me: "The optimum strategy"

Supplier: "Ok, but how many points"

Me: "The optimum number of points"

Supplier: "Ummm, Ok, but how many do you want us to use?"

Me: "Consider your evaluation settings, diameter of feature, weight of stylus, rigidity of stylus, and type of qualification, then do a proprietary calculation; There you will find the optimum."

Supplier: "Can't you just tell us how many points and how fast?"

[[Th...]]

I think Navigator also has worse repeatability than the cookbook values for active heads, so I would only bother using it if I'm really short on time and have a wide enough tolerance band that the measurement variance isn't an issue.

[[Ma...]]

I don’t use it much anymore, I used to but trust it but I took another path. I run the part, features/ characteristics set to the Cookbook, then increase the speed slowly, if needed, until I get an unsuitable variation from my slower speed. In some shops speed and throughput are the focus, but accuracy should prevail. I’m willing to speed it up a little but won’t sacrifice accuracy over speed.

[[Ma...]]

We are not using it, but i would imagine when you want to reduce measuring time, that you will tryout where you can speed up.

[[Je...]]

I use Navigator on our small parts (they´re all small) only at cylinders and circles, only with big tolerances, and only while tangential probing for speed and angle range. I set the number of points by myself, to make sure, that my filters fit

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