Zeiss O-Inspect 863: Simple Optical Only Program Runs In Calypso Desktop But Fails In AutoRun

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Dear Calypso Users 

I have a Zeiss O-Inspect 873 where I developed a simple Calypso 2020 program that has 1 optical manual point feature (created by the optical tool “Manual Measurement”). Using a base alignment with no features and an alignment MCS (CMM System), optical sensor at 0.50X, upon execution, the CMM travels in CNC mode to the designated point in the MCS, shows the red crosshairs allowing me to adjust a particular fixture component (micro VBlock) parallel to the horizontal crosshair. When satisfied with the VBlock rotational orientation, I strike the button on top of the right joystick to end the program.

This program works beautifully in Calypso desktop. However, when executing it in AutoRun, it was working well, then all of a sudden it stopped working yielding an error message. The CMM optical sensor (0.50X) moves to the proper position; the computer monitor appears to switch to camera live image mode for a brief second, but then switches back to non-live image mode, finally yielding the error message. See attached error report and screen captures.

Please see attached screen shots and Error Report.  I look forward to your thoughts and insights.

Good Weekend

Mike Roterdam

Senior Metrology Engineer

 

ErrorReport.txt

[[Mi...]]

Hello Fellow Calypso Users

I dug into this more and here’s what I found.

When you fire up Calypso, login and launch the program from AutoRun, the failure (live image on and off) always occurs.  It will continue to fail, unless you go into Calypso desktop, run it from there (always successfully), come back into AutoRun where it will also run successfully from that point forward.

So the initial launch of the program from AutoRun appears to be the culprit. Unfortunately this is how operators/technicians will run the program; I do not give them access to Calypso desktop.

FYI, completely shutting down and firing-up the PC and the CMM did nothing to change the outcome.

I even added a tactile point measurement on the cylindrical portion of the micro-Vblock that proceeds the manual optical measurement point (red crosshairs) hoping that starting the program with the tactile sensor prior to engaging the optical sensor might fix things, but to no avail.

I look forward to your thoughts and insights.

Thank you 

Mike Roterdam

Senior Metrology Engineer