Its me again, with another newbie question. Im still a novice to PC DMIS, having only taken the Level 1 CAD class to this point. Lets say I have a part lined up with the CAD model. However there is significant warp to the part so that when I go to measure another feature elsewhere from my original alignment, its way off the CAD model giving me misses and crashes. Is there a way to line features back up? That is to say, try and tell PC DMIS that the CAD feature is actually over here on this part?
Something else I thought of. You can try measuring a feature close to your warped area, create a secondary alignment, translate and datum off that feature, and then measure the other features. Just remember to report all the features back to the primary datums I think this will give you the correct nominals and your measured values should show how bad/good the part is. If your parts aere so far off and warped that the cmm can't even find the feature, you might as well use a tape measure instead of a CMM.
Something else I thought of. You can try measuring a feature close to your warped area, create a secondary alignment, translate and datum off that feature, and then measure the other features. Just remember to report all the features back to the primary datums I think this will give you the correct nominals and your measured values should show how bad/good the part is. If your parts aere so far off and warped that the cmm can't even find the feature, you might as well use a tape measure instead of a CMM.
