Moving reference sphere and re-calibrating

[[Ky...]]

If you move the reference and then have to put in back to re-qualify 1 stylus do you then have to re-qualify all of the probes that currently being used? We recently had an incident where the sphere was removed and a stylus was broken, the sphere was put back on and used to re-qualify the replaced stylus. We very rarely have to take the sphere off of the granite as we just don't use that location for measurement very often so there was some confusion if all the probes needed to be re-qualified or not after putting it back on.

[[Ja...]]

Probe qualification should simply measure the position of your probe relative to the master probe. That being said, you should be able to calibrate each tip at a different location on the granite as long as you re-locate the sphere with the master probe (it wouldn't calibrate without doing this anyway).

You don't need to re-qualify all of the probes being used, just the one that broke (for all angles).

[[To...]]

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Under normal conditions, do you execute the Reference Sphere Position when you re-qualify your styli?

[[Jo...]]

I have a probe qualification program set up that I use to run sets of styli. Running in Master profile is no problem. I load Master probe and locate reference sphere. I then select any other stylus systems and it runs them as I get coffee.

I now have other operators who run in autorun interface only. I added the probe qualification program to it, but I don't know how to allow (or force) them to locate reference sphere. If I add Master qualification it runs it like any other stylus system.

I suspect that only the styli that are qualified together are linked, and if reference sphere is moved it would require all styli to be requalified. My reference sphere always is placed in the same area, but has to be removed every time.