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"Failed to detect a focus position for feature <featurename>"

What can cause this?

Tried
- new probe files
- different Z-heights
- different lightning
- different backgrounds
- different surfaces

I can visually "see" that it does focus very well, during the autofocus phase - however, it does not seem to "lock" or "detect" this...
CMM-V (HP-C-VE) in 2016.0 SP1.

Ideas?

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  • I had this issue but it may not be related to why it is doing it for your specific situation. I also had the pleasure of getting in contact with Bryan S and working through this issue with him. This issue was happening for my machine while actually trying to calibrate the Focus on my machine.

    Turns out my calibration slide was missing key markers(and you wouldn't know it unless you compared it to a good one next to it) that would help calibrate Pixel Size and Focus which are directly related to one another. We would calibrate any new probe file like this and it wouldn't work due to the slide.

    The key to this issue however was that if a probe file was calibrated on this bad slide the Focus calibration and Pixel size would be so bad it wouldn't overwrite its previous calibration. You have to construct a new probe and try again only with a good slide. So even with a good cal slide I could not use my previous probe file calibrated on the bad slide. I had to completely rebuild all of my vision probes because of this.

    Again, probably not related because it was kind of a fluke accident that my cal slide markers happen to wipe off with IPA and they didn't look damaged at all. None the less the same error message. Bryan was able to show me what was happening in the Probe Toolbox area that shows your Focus range. Another key tool he showed me was the gauge tool in the Probe toolbox. Basically you place the gauge somewhere relative to your cross hair on the screen and if it is a decent calibration it would track with you machine. If the calibration was bad, which we found, the gauge would severely track away from the cross hair on your screen which mine did after the calibration. This explained that my pixel size and focus ranges were not anywhere near close to good. Mine was going to max and min position of my range in a split second and then searching at its min position instead of a nice centered bell curve it was a line reaching the top and bottom of + and - and then a flat line at the bottom of -.

    It was an interesting scenario. Good Luck. I am interested as to how it gets solved for you.

    EDIT: I should add in, Optiv 2z763 2015.1 Falcon Board x64
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  • I had this issue but it may not be related to why it is doing it for your specific situation. I also had the pleasure of getting in contact with Bryan S and working through this issue with him. This issue was happening for my machine while actually trying to calibrate the Focus on my machine.

    Turns out my calibration slide was missing key markers(and you wouldn't know it unless you compared it to a good one next to it) that would help calibrate Pixel Size and Focus which are directly related to one another. We would calibrate any new probe file like this and it wouldn't work due to the slide.

    The key to this issue however was that if a probe file was calibrated on this bad slide the Focus calibration and Pixel size would be so bad it wouldn't overwrite its previous calibration. You have to construct a new probe and try again only with a good slide. So even with a good cal slide I could not use my previous probe file calibrated on the bad slide. I had to completely rebuild all of my vision probes because of this.

    Again, probably not related because it was kind of a fluke accident that my cal slide markers happen to wipe off with IPA and they didn't look damaged at all. None the less the same error message. Bryan was able to show me what was happening in the Probe Toolbox area that shows your Focus range. Another key tool he showed me was the gauge tool in the Probe toolbox. Basically you place the gauge somewhere relative to your cross hair on the screen and if it is a decent calibration it would track with you machine. If the calibration was bad, which we found, the gauge would severely track away from the cross hair on your screen which mine did after the calibration. This explained that my pixel size and focus ranges were not anywhere near close to good. Mine was going to max and min position of my range in a split second and then searching at its min position instead of a nice centered bell curve it was a line reaching the top and bottom of + and - and then a flat line at the bottom of -.

    It was an interesting scenario. Good Luck. I am interested as to how it gets solved for you.

    EDIT: I should add in, Optiv 2z763 2015.1 Falcon Board x64
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