Hi,
I am getting an error message "Command argument out of limit" whenever i try to ctrl+e a single feature of a program after the program has ran through fully. It is happening with all current programs. I feel another employee has changed a setting, has anyone ever had this issue before?
No, Program will run fine from start to beginning, but if i stop the program in the middle and try to execute the program from the cursor or a single feature etc, it moves towards the feature then stops and gives the error message "Command argument out of limit". It does this for any feature in all programs, even a new program i made to test. Its as if it is not holding on to the data/alignments once the program stops.
YA thats pretty weird. it might have something to do with a prehit/retract setting or a AVOIDANCE MOVE setting. very tough to tell without any code.
or as you suspected its an alignment issue.
Yeah I feel a setting has been changed by someone somewhere, as I had a problem with calibration yesterday where A0B0 would calibrate fine then any other angle for any probe would miss the sphere by a lot, and after hours of digging noticed the probe head orientation had been changed for A90B180 from Y+ to Y-.
I have had this happen to me. There is a bug in PC-DMIS where, when calibrating probes, you could potentially end up with a negative tip diameter. It usually happens when someone calibrates the probe with the wrong calibration sphere selected (something significantly smaller than the one physically on the machine). The controller will return this error because the PRBPIN command sent by PC-DMIS includes a negative tip diameter and that is the argument the controller is rejecting. It makes sense that this pops up every time you try to measure something using CTRL+E as the PRBPIN command is sent at that time.
To get around this I found I had to create an offline program in order to access the probe and use the option 'Reset Tips' to clear it. Once you do this you can return to your online program, calibrate tips, and carry on normally.