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Making 2 Part Programs into 1. One Graphic, One report

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I have a top half part program, and a bottom half. Is there a way I can merge the two? I want to run the top half, program A, then input a comment to the operator for them to flip the part, touch off, then measure the bottom half. All using one graphic, one report, one model. I don't want the features measured on the bottom half, program B, to be in space. I want the features to be pulled from the same model used in program A. Then dimension all 500 items in one report.

Can an equate alignment work? I thought those were used if the part moves laterally in any direction. But in this case, I need to flip the part to measure the bottom half.

Any advice?
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  • Equate should work well for both sliding and flipping, as long as you are aware of what's happening. All that's mathematically needed are two alignments: one before, one after the move, where the resulting alignments have the same zero points and the same axes in the same direction in relation to the part.

    If you can't measure the same features before and after, you will get more uncertainty in the result, then it might be better to create special alignments just for the move, so you can touch the same surfaces.

    If you cant find surfaces/features with tolerance fine enough for this, you can attach three magnetic spheres on the part (and make sure they don't move when you flip the part) and do the equate alignments on them.
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  • Equate should work well for both sliding and flipping, as long as you are aware of what's happening. All that's mathematically needed are two alignments: one before, one after the move, where the resulting alignments have the same zero points and the same axes in the same direction in relation to the part.

    If you can't measure the same features before and after, you will get more uncertainty in the result, then it might be better to create special alignments just for the move, so you can touch the same surfaces.

    If you cant find surfaces/features with tolerance fine enough for this, you can attach three magnetic spheres on the part (and make sure they don't move when you flip the part) and do the equate alignments on them.
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