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Autocailbration losing sphere mid calibration

Where I work we have 6 CMM's. We use the same AutoCalibrate program on every machine. It works fine on 5 of them, but on one it will run for about an hour touching the sphere and calibrating the angles we have set. Then randomly it will go out in space and try to take a hit in the air. My boss (my companies actual CMM Programmer, I'm new and still learning Slight smile ) said she has never seen anything like this. We talked with Hexagon support and they us to not reset tips to theo before the calibration and that worked until the next time we calibrated and it lost the sphere mid calibration again. They then advised us to delete all the probe files and recreate them, which I did and the same thing happened. Worked that one time and the next time lost the sphere.

Maybe someone on here has experienced this or something like this because we don't know what else to do with this machine.

The code for this autocalibrate program is just some autocalibrate commands for each tip and move points to move above the sphere to change probes. I can post the code if needed. We are using version 2014.1.
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  • Someone is not following proper procedure when qualifying tips . If you know the tipname of the one that is going out in left field. Reset just that tip to theo. You may have more to come as you proceed through the program. Might be better to reset them all, and educate everyone on proper procedure.
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  • Someone is not following proper procedure when qualifying tips . If you know the tipname of the one that is going out in left field. Reset just that tip to theo. You may have more to come as you proceed through the program. Might be better to reset them all, and educate everyone on proper procedure.
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