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Equate Alignment program problem

seppley
I have a part program, i have successfully written it to where i can flip the part, and equate the alignment, all works well, until the next part is ready to be measured. I cannot get the Dmis to go back to the startup alignment at the beginning of the program. I am forced to do a manual alignment for each part. Normally, i manually align the part once, run it through, then the next time i turn off the manual alignment features and run it over and over again letting the dcc alignment take over.

This program will not do that, everytime i start the program over again without the manual alignment features selected, it thinks that the probe head is still on the negative side of the Z axis, which is not true. I don't know why it is not looking at the startup alignment that should tell the program that the probe head is in the space relative to the machine and not the part.

any thoughts? i hope i have just missed something stupid here....

Sam
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  • Ok, I found the program...

    First I will explain what little I remember before I post the program...

    1. There are two models of the part in the program. One in the Op.1 position and one flipped in the Op.2 position. I gave each a different color so they were easy to tell apart. Don't know if that is how you do it, but it seemed the easiest thing for me to do, all probe hits on Op.1 are done on the Op.1 model... all Op.2 hits done on the other model.

    2. I started with a manual alignment, then did an Op.1 DCC alignment. after the part flipped I did another manual alignment followed by an Op.2 DCC alignment..

    3. And it appears that at the end of the program I created another DCC alignment called A1. This alignment at the very end of the program, flips the "part" UCS again, back to the Op.1 orientation. I use a plane and circle created on the part in the Op.2 position to create the A1 alignment... then I Equate this A1 alignment back to the Op.1 alignment.

    4. After that... I turn off the manual alignments and let er' rip. I use a fixture to ensure that the part is placed in the same location every time.. and all worked well...

    Now I will attempt to post the code...
    Sam
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  • Ok, I found the program...

    First I will explain what little I remember before I post the program...

    1. There are two models of the part in the program. One in the Op.1 position and one flipped in the Op.2 position. I gave each a different color so they were easy to tell apart. Don't know if that is how you do it, but it seemed the easiest thing for me to do, all probe hits on Op.1 are done on the Op.1 model... all Op.2 hits done on the other model.

    2. I started with a manual alignment, then did an Op.1 DCC alignment. after the part flipped I did another manual alignment followed by an Op.2 DCC alignment..

    3. And it appears that at the end of the program I created another DCC alignment called A1. This alignment at the very end of the program, flips the "part" UCS again, back to the Op.1 orientation. I use a plane and circle created on the part in the Op.2 position to create the A1 alignment... then I Equate this A1 alignment back to the Op.1 alignment.

    4. After that... I turn off the manual alignments and let er' rip. I use a fixture to ensure that the part is placed in the same location every time.. and all worked well...

    Now I will attempt to post the code...
    Sam
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