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Wrist Rotation Speed

I was wondering if there is a way to slow down wrist rotation? I tried adjusting wrist speed in the parameters dialog but to no avail. The reason I ask is because recently I've had to measure parts with several rotations and I find that they are sending the probe out of balance.
Thanks!
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  • 1. Wrist speed is not adjustable on regular indexing wrists.

    2. Make sure to not use Fly Mode with analog scanning probes, as it skips the pause after a Tip change which is when the probe re-balances itself.

    3. This may be a problem with the health of the probe. If it's been crashed hard enough, it may be damaged internally.
    Here's my fav procedure for testing for that:

    Create a test program that employs the qual sphere straight up in the middle of the table as an artifact:
    1) Manual mode, load master probe, A0B0, manual 5-hit sphere, set as XYZ origin (no level, no rotate).
    2) DCC mode, master probe, A0B0, 23-hit auto-sphere, set as XYZ origin (no level, no rotate).
    3) A90B0, 23-hit auto-sphere (nominal diameter set as measured by A0B0), report X,Y,Z,D, and Profile.
    4) A90B-90, 23-hit auto-sphere, report X,Y,Z,D, and Profile.
    5) A90B90, 23-hit auto-sphere, report X,Y,Z,D, and Profile.
    6) A90B180, 23-hit auto-sphere, report X,Y,Z,D, and Profile.
    7) Load probe #2,
    8) A0B0, 23-hit auto-sphere…
    9) …etc, etc. Repeat the 5 tip angles for each probe.
    10) (optional) Use File I/O to write comma-separated measured values only to CSV format text file (easy to open and graph in Excel).

    All reported results should be within your acceptable uncertainty with consideration of stylus length.
    XYZ and D errors mean probe internal health or calibration problems, Profile errors mean bad carbon fiber shafts.

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  • 1. Wrist speed is not adjustable on regular indexing wrists.

    2. Make sure to not use Fly Mode with analog scanning probes, as it skips the pause after a Tip change which is when the probe re-balances itself.

    3. This may be a problem with the health of the probe. If it's been crashed hard enough, it may be damaged internally.
    Here's my fav procedure for testing for that:

    Create a test program that employs the qual sphere straight up in the middle of the table as an artifact:
    1) Manual mode, load master probe, A0B0, manual 5-hit sphere, set as XYZ origin (no level, no rotate).
    2) DCC mode, master probe, A0B0, 23-hit auto-sphere, set as XYZ origin (no level, no rotate).
    3) A90B0, 23-hit auto-sphere (nominal diameter set as measured by A0B0), report X,Y,Z,D, and Profile.
    4) A90B-90, 23-hit auto-sphere, report X,Y,Z,D, and Profile.
    5) A90B90, 23-hit auto-sphere, report X,Y,Z,D, and Profile.
    6) A90B180, 23-hit auto-sphere, report X,Y,Z,D, and Profile.
    7) Load probe #2,
    8) A0B0, 23-hit auto-sphere…
    9) …etc, etc. Repeat the 5 tip angles for each probe.
    10) (optional) Use File I/O to write comma-separated measured values only to CSV format text file (easy to open and graph in Excel).

    All reported results should be within your acceptable uncertainty with consideration of stylus length.
    XYZ and D errors mean probe internal health or calibration problems, Profile errors mean bad carbon fiber shafts.

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