I've got a part here that requires hundreds of inspections, so we created a fixture to run 15 of the parts in one execution so i'm not required to come back to the CMM every few minutes. I've hit a wall though where I need my reports to print per part and NOT have the previous part's dimensions. In other words, after each print command I want my results at that specific point in the program to be cleared so the next part's results will be the only results in the next report. This is important because I am going to import my results into another software for my Final Inspection Reports, and the software will only pick up the first part's dimensions if all the results are in one file. I'm a novice user, so if this will require any expressions/assign commands I will need as much explanation as possible. Thanks for any help!
NinjaBadger is right. If you were to implement a loop then you could use a print command inside the loop and generate the report for each part when it finishes.
Yes, I did use the paste with pattern (luckily didn't spend the time to do all 15 since I haven't figured out the print issue though). I am not familiar with looping whatsoever though.
you could output via file/writeline before the end loop. it will output data to a CSV file.
I've never been a big fan of PCDMIS default reports.
The below is for a 4 cavity mold, with a fixture that holds 8 cavities, so it has some extra logic in it to run 8 parts and output cavity ID's of only 4 parts (twoshots).
This routine is also parametric, it will measure the same parts with different sampling criteria as defined by our client. We measure more dim's at Startup and less dim's In-Process, so there's also logic/flow control to have one routine to measure every instance.
at beginning of routine (before loop/start)
ASSIGN/C_PATH="C:\PRODUCTION\customerx\partname\partcsvfile.CSV"
ASSIGN/ROUTINE="partnumber CMM Startup 8cav"
ASSIGN/CHAR_2="AB.1 #10 Position "
ASSIGN/CHAR_3="AB.2 #10 Position "
ASSIGN/CHAR_4="AC #9 Position "
ASSIGN/CHAR_5="AD #11 Position "
ASSIGN/CHAR_7="AF #69 Position "
ASSIGN/CHAR_8="AG.1 #129 Position "
ASSIGN/CHAR_9="AG.2 #129 Position "
LOT_NUM =COMMENT/INPUT,NO,FULL SCREEN=YES,
'Lot#?'
CAV_1 =COMMENT/INPUT,NO,FULL SCREEN=YES,
'What cavity is
in station 1?'
IF_GOTO/QTY.INPUT<2,GOTO = ENDCAV
CAV_2 =COMMENT/INPUT,NO,FULL SCREEN=YES,
'What cavity is
in station 2?'
IF_GOTO/QTY.INPUT<3,GOTO = ENDCAV
CAV_3 =COMMENT/INPUT,NO,FULL SCREEN=YES,
'What cavity is
in station 3?'
IF_GOTO/QTY.INPUT<4,GOTO = ENDCAV
CAV_4 =COMMENT/INPUT,NO,FULL SCREEN=YES,
'What cavity is
in station 4?'
IF_GOTO/QTY.INPUT==4 AND TWOSHOTS.INPUT=="YES",GOTO = ENDCAV
IF_GOTO/QTY.INPUT<5,GOTO = ENDCAV
CAV_5 =COMMENT/INPUT,NO,FULL SCREEN=YES,
'What cavity is
in station 5?'
IF_GOTO/QTY.INPUT<6,GOTO = ENDCAV
CAV_6 =COMMENT/INPUT,NO,FULL SCREEN=YES,
'What cavity is
in station 6?'
IF_GOTO/QTY.INPUT<7,GOTO = ENDCAV
CAV_7 =COMMENT/INPUT,NO,FULL SCREEN=YES,
'What cavity is
in station 7?'
IF_GOTO/QTY.INPUT<8,GOTO = ENDCAV
CAV_8 =COMMENT/INPUT,NO,FULL SCREEN=YES,
'What cavity is
in station 8?'
IF_GOTO/QTY.INPUT<2,GOTO = ENDCAV
ENDCAV =LABEL/
USER =COMMENT/INPUT,NO,FULL SCREEN=YES,
'Operator?'
SCHEDULE =COMMENT/INPUT,NO,FULL SCREEN=YES,
'Scheduled inspection time?'
ASSIGN/RUN_ID=LOT_NUM.INPUT
ASSIGN/OPERATOR=USER.INPUT
ASSIGN/TIME=SCHEDULE.INPUT
C_FILE =FILE/OPEN,C_PATH,APPEND
FILE/WRITELINE,C_FILE,"/PART NUMBER/" + "," + PART
FILE/WRITELINE,C_FILE,"/ROUTINE NAME/" + "," + ROUTINE
FILE/WRITELINE,C_FILE,"/LOT#/" + "," + RUN_ID
FILE/WRITELINE,C_FILE,"/OPERATOR/" + "," + TRACE_FOLDER + "," + "Operator" + "," + OPERATOR
FILE/WRITELINE,C_FILE,"/SCHEDULED TIME/" + "," + TRACE_FOLDER + "," + "Scheduled Time" + "," + TIME
FILE/CLOSE,C_FILE,KEEP
Note this output will make the data report with one dimension per row of CSV. if you want to consolidate all the DIM's into one row, just do a single file/writeline and output each dimension value separated by a comma. "AA.D.MEAS, AB_1.D.MEAS, AB_2.D.MEAS, AC.M.MEAS, AD.M.MEAS, AE.M.MEAS, AE_AQL.M.MEAS, AF.M.MEAS, AG_1.M.MEAS, AG_2.M.MEAS"
If i'm not mistaken, the F5 menu, under Feature IDs (or something to that nature; i'm working from memeory) you might be able to turn off the braketing. There's a checkbox that is something to the effect of increment array bracket numbering or something. Check that out.
