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Getting a Star probe square to your machine

John Kingston
First, you need to have your star square to the machine.
What I do is place a 123 block on my plate.
I have a Rayco plate so it is easy to get that square.
When I put the star in I eyeball it square to the block.
Your dual calsphere needs to be pretty square to the machine also.
Next, I calibrate each tip individually, starting with #1.
It might take a few tries, but it'll work.
Here are a couple of pics of how I do it.


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  • New question about calibration of a star probe: I have a 3 tip "star probe" I have been using routinely for years. All of a sudden one of the tips (tip 3) won't calibrate because the magnetic coupling of our tp200 crashes into the sphere after the 4th of 9 hits. I have used this probe many many times and I basically don't know what changed to cause this issue. Watching the machine in action, it does appear the tip is going just a bit too deep into the sphere. What parameter can you just to keep the ball from going too deep?

    Thanks

    Don LaDue

    Have you tried qualifying the tip(s) manually? Sometimes if you do that, then the routine will run ok DCC.

    You could have a corrupt probe file. Deleting it and building a new one will fix it if that is the issue.
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  • New question about calibration of a star probe: I have a 3 tip "star probe" I have been using routinely for years. All of a sudden one of the tips (tip 3) won't calibrate because the magnetic coupling of our tp200 crashes into the sphere after the 4th of 9 hits. I have used this probe many many times and I basically don't know what changed to cause this issue. Watching the machine in action, it does appear the tip is going just a bit too deep into the sphere. What parameter can you just to keep the ball from going too deep?

    Thanks

    Don LaDue

    Have you tried qualifying the tip(s) manually? Sometimes if you do that, then the routine will run ok DCC.

    You could have a corrupt probe file. Deleting it and building a new one will fix it if that is the issue.
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