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Getting the position and orientation of the Base Alignment in the machine envelope


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Does anyone know if there is a way to determine the posiion and orientation of the Base Alignment in the machine envelope for a measurement run?

Perhaps there would be a way to do it with a result element using a specific pcm formula?
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Hello Aaron,

By machine envelope, do you mean relative to the machine axes? Because you can make a secondary alignment based on the CMM coordinates (e.g. 0,0,0 being in the left/back/top of the machine).

When you create a secondary alignment from resources>utility>alignment, there is a drop down at the top that you can select "CMM System" from.

Let me know if that was what you were talking about.
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So, I added a Secondary alignment from the CMM System and named it 'Machine CS' (creative, I know...) What it left in the Default Printout is this:

Machine CS               Alignment              
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(CMM system)

 X                        -62.782909          Tilt Direction Y/X      0.000000
 Y                        302.154119          Angle Of Inclination    0.000000
 Z                        179.208987          Plane Angle Y/X       360.000000
 Delta Value              544.146016          Plane rotation          0.000000
I could use a little help understanding what all this information. The X, Y, and Z values obviously reveal where in the Base Alignment the CMM system's origin lies. I don't think the Delta value is of any value to me. What do the four angles represent, and what range of values could they potentially have? (My example is perhaps overly simplistic, since my BA was set up to inherit both angles from the CMM system, because it only contained a single sphere, which served as the X, Y, Z origin of the BA.)
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