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Quadrents flip when measuring cylinders

When I measure cylinders and tolerance the TP using exact measure it will flip the quadrants from positive to negative on the inspection report up to .010. I ran the same part 3 times and the X,Y coordinates switched from +.005 to -.005 just randomly on different cylinders. I recalculated in legacy and repeated the test and it repeated within tenths. Anyone else run across this?
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  • I believe that Xact measure always reports the worst end of the cylinder. If the cylinder has orientation error and the error is equally distributed top and bottom, it could be switching between top and bottom of the cylinder based on calculations out in the the 12th decimal. Would be highly councedental, but I've had it happen in another software. Showed up in a GR&R.

    Easy way to check would be to tell legacy to report both ends of the axis, and see if one end of hole has +.005 deviation, and the other has -.005
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  • I believe that Xact measure always reports the worst end of the cylinder. If the cylinder has orientation error and the error is equally distributed top and bottom, it could be switching between top and bottom of the cylinder based on calculations out in the the 12th decimal. Would be highly councedental, but I've had it happen in another software. Showed up in a GR&R.

    Easy way to check would be to tell legacy to report both ends of the axis, and see if one end of hole has +.005 deviation, and the other has -.005
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