Good Morning. I am fairly new to CMM programming so please don't mind me if I can't explain things properly. So one of our programs require that I use a 90° angled tip so when the tip is rotated at A0B0 my tip is taking points in X/Y direction. My issue is when I am calibrating, the entire probe changes orientation on PCDmis where the angled tip is now pointing down to Z-minus which messes up calibration either by crashing into the sphere or taking points too far from the sphere. I was able to calibrate this tip before on the same machine back in December, but it was due so that's why I am calibrating it now. I do not remember how I was able to calibrate it before but now I just can't seem to get it to work. I tried deleting and remaking the tip but still gives me the same issue. Please any help is greatly appreciated.
A bit confusing on how you present the problem but maybe try selecting Man+DCC (no it has not moved also) for all tips/rotations. Like this, each time it will request a manual probing on the sphere before calibrating. After a full successful calibration like this, you can go to DCC+DCC.
What direction does your tip face when in A0B0?
If you index it to A90B0, does the tip face down at your plate?
Does the flipping of view occur only when going to calibrate?
What is failing in the calibration, is the tip able to contact the sphere at ALL?
I use L tips often, it is very normal when the calibration is running to see the odd shift in the graphics window.
I apologize for the confusing explanation. I haven't calibrated yet since last week due to my production work being the priority but since the only thing I can think of I was doing wrong was at the beginning of each tip rotation calibration it asks me to take a point on the sphere and I have always taken the hit on top of the sphere. I will try to do it this way and hopefully it works. Thanks!
My tip at A0B0 is pointing at 290°. When I change it to A90B0, the tip is actually pointed upwards. The flipping of view only happens as soon as it starts the calibration.
When I try to calibrate all the tip rotations I need (only use 10 tip/rotation) on some rotations the tip will be taking hits maybe about an inch away from the sphere. When I did it one tip at a time it was calibrating fine but then when I run the program that uses the tip, the tip crashes to the part.
So in your probe window where you have the knuckle component(4/5way) did you double-click and put the proper tip rotation in, or did you leave it as if it were built @ 270º?
Did you intend to have the tip at 270 and when tightening it shifted?
Slyther18 back to basics first, at the beginning of you're probe qualification are you using a master probe to start the qualifications when asked if the sphere has moved or not ?
Sorry for the very late update but thank you everyone for your help. Because of my other priorities at work I wasn't able to take care of this til end of last week. I was finally able to get this fixed by doing FRADDERS' suggestion. The reason it wasn't calibrating properly was because I was using the angled tip at the beginning of calibration to find the sphere.