The parts I'm inspecting have indents from chuck jaws or from poor handling. Also weld splatter on the machined surfaces. When I probe on a defect it throws the feature out of whack. Right now I am just clicking on every feature in the command window to see its error in the the status window. Is there a way to report it? Thanks guys
If this were my life, and I could create the time, I might do something like measure the thing 5 times, each measurement starting clocked 18 degrees apart, look at the form error and report the feature with the lowest form error for position/size and report the worst form error as form error (simplest).
Or, write code to send all the point data to, points with an error to form 10% beyond the error of the average error to true form, and I would put them in a "no" list, then make features from all the points in the "yes" list (much more complex coding).
This would require that I spend enough time manually checking the weld splatter to prove the CMM should be ignored that it would justify the extra CMM time to over-inspect the part AND my time programming all that crap.
You can look at the code section of this forum to get some ideas on scripts and how to use them, if you can justify the time investment.
If this were my life, and I could create the time, I might do something like measure the thing 5 times, each measurement starting clocked 18 degrees apart, look at the form error and report the feature with the lowest form error for position/size and report the worst form error as form error (simplest).
Or, write code to send all the point data to, points with an error to form 10% beyond the error of the average error to true form, and I would put them in a "no" list, then make features from all the points in the "yes" list (much more complex coding).
This would require that I spend enough time manually checking the weld splatter to prove the CMM should be ignored that it would justify the extra CMM time to over-inspect the part AND my time programming all that crap.
You can look at the code section of this forum to get some ideas on scripts and how to use them, if you can justify the time investment.
