Scanning - Reporting Basics

We balloon every item on our prints, even the reference and Basic callouts. Typically, we will just skip over Basic callouts on the CMM report and fill out the inspection record with the word "non-reportable" or something like that.

Once in a while we will get a customer that wants us to report out measurements for the Basic callouts on profiles. So dumb - it defeats the purpose of a profile callout! In those cases the CMM report will show every ballooned item in the order they were ballooned. A separate person does that, so I have no control over the order of the ballooning. They typically follow a pattern of top to bottom and/or clockwise. So, there is no attempt to keep the data all together the way you are proposing. I'm just telling you how our organization does it, I'm sure there are lots of different ways to go about it.

For point-to-point line profiles, I'll typically measure it as one long linear open scan if I can. To report the Basics, I'll construct lines and circles using scan segments from that one long linear open scan. Then construct intersect points and such from those. Then report the basic callouts using huge tolerances with just the nominal and measured values displayed on the report - I don't want them to show up as red on the report unless there was some obvious programming/construction error. Luckily, I haven't had any customers attempt to apply a tolerance to those callouts. They more or less like to see it on the report for reference.

We balloon every item on our prints, even the reference and Basic callouts. Typically, we will just skip over Basic callouts on the CMM report and fill out the inspection record with the word "non-reportable" or something like that.

Once in a while we will get a customer that wants us to report out measurements for the Basic callouts on profiles. So dumb - it defeats the purpose of a profile callout! In those cases the CMM report will show every ballooned item in the order they were ballooned. A separate person does that, so I have no control over the order of the ballooning. They typically follow a pattern of top to bottom and/or clockwise. So, there is no attempt to keep the data all together the way you are proposing. I'm just telling you how our organization does it, I'm sure there are lots of different ways to go about it.

For point-to-point line profiles, I'll typically measure it as one long linear open scan if I can. To report the Basics, I'll construct lines and circles using scan segments from that one long linear open scan. Then construct intersect points and such from those. Then report the basic callouts using huge tolerances with just the nominal and measured values displayed on the report - I don't want them to show up as red on the report unless there was some obvious programming/construction error. Luckily, I haven't had any customers attempt to apply a tolerance to those callouts. They more or less like to see it on the report for reference.