I am being asked to confirm the orientation of a round clip, similar to a hose clamp. The dimension is an angle, and the tolerance is ±45°. Since the clip can be anywhere in this 90° range, what is the best way for the CMM to 'find' it? (without taking manual hits on it of course). The polar radius of the clip location is about 35 mm if that helps.
If there were "curved" vectors, you could do it using a LARGE prehit/retract value, but going around a circle, trying to find that, wow, you've got 55mm of "area" that thing can be in.
You can try a series of vector points with a "on error" command to skip the point that didn't touch it and have it go to another one to see if IT can touch it, and so on....
If there were "curved" vectors, you could do it using a LARGE prehit/retract value, but going around a circle, trying to find that, wow, you've got 55mm of "area" that thing can be in.
You can try a series of vector points with a "on error" command to skip the point that didn't touch it and have it go to another one to see if IT can touch it, and so on....
