Thats cool as h3ll, would love to se epics of your machine! I am lucky, all of my stuff is 10 years old or newer (except the manual CMM from the Cold War lol)
Clearance Cube limitations with using star probes with articulating probe head.
When the features that are being measure at the bottom of the part using Tip 5 and trying to stop the probe from moving above the part for every tip angle changes.
Another, issue with using star probes with articulating probe head is when you switch from T5 to T3 with no probe angle changes the probe will still try to move outside of the
clearance cube constraints.
When you do get the probe head to staying within the clearance cube constraints you will get a warning message every time that you are changing the probe within the clearance cube.
Then when you want to use the MINI routines you have to use the clearance cube and that is not just a click and play either.
The other option would be to use Feature Based Measurement (FBM) in which is an add-on.
In other words your better off doing what others have posted here to work with guiding the probe around the part for now. At least until Hexagon does some major improvements with the clearance cube.
FBM help file Link: https://docs.hexagonmi.com/pcdmis/2020.2/en/helpcenter/index.htm?rhcsh=1&rhnewwnd=0#t=mergedProjects%2Fcore%2F09_edit_window_topics%2FUsing_Feature_Based_Measurement.htm&rhsearch=FBM&rhsyns=%20
