I need to measure the thickness of a wedge/pie shaped part very accurately. Both sides of the wedge are flat, but obviously not parallel by design. (About 0.5 degree angle). I can probe both sides of this part if I stand the wedge up. With my current method, I believe I am getting some cosine error in the measurements, but am not sure. My current method is to establish a coordinate system using one side as the primary datum, call it the "straight" side. I level to X-, set X origin. I then take points at the same Y and Z coordinates on both sides. As you move along Y, the part thickness changes. Using the CAD I pull the vector for the "angled" side and set the points to the same Y and Z as the "straight" side. I also am using the smallest diameter probe I have. Does this approach sound correct? Customer is questioning my results so I want to make sure I am doing this the correct way.
Thanks!
