Going away from part I k

Why does direction ijk vector go away from point? I e the touch probe will hit a point going into part being measured but ijk is reported as coming from point on part.

I'm not a cmm programmer. Work in quality appreciate any wisdom. Please excuse my ignorance. Thankyou!

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Schrocknroll over 3 years ago

Just to add to the other post, the vector of a point describes the point itself. It's not a instruction on how to measure or probe the point. So the vector of a point describes how it is facing relative to the surface that it's on. If a point is on top of a part, then it's facing the Z plus direction, so it's vector is 0,0,1.
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Schrocknroll over 3 years ago

Just to add to the other post, the vector of a point describes the point itself. It's not a instruction on how to measure or probe the point. So the vector of a point describes how it is facing relative to the surface that it's on. If a point is on top of a part, then it's facing the Z plus direction, so it's vector is 0,0,1.
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