Programmatically add tips to the probes list...

Couldn't the Global Used within the Probe Utilities help with this? For example, the CMM's that use a Probe Changer I copy and paste all of the measurement routines that will be used on that particular CMM to a folder I created within the Hexagon folder. Then I will change the Set Search Path to that folder location for the Probe Directory. Then use the Global Used within the Probe Utilities to add the probe angles for each probe build in the probe rack. Once all of the probe angles are created, I have a script that is called from each measurement routine to save as the routine locally to a folder created by the script. Now I will use that folder to create all of the probe angles for the current measurement routines. The current measurement routines are the latest routines with the current template builds. When completed I will change the Set Search Path back to the required directories. For the Auto calibration routine, I use a routine template using trace fields to allow a user to add the probe builds names and number of probe racks. This allows one routine template to be used to create individual Auto Calibration routines for each CMM.

Couldn't the Global Used within the Probe Utilities help with this? For example, the CMM's that use a Probe Changer I copy and paste all of the measurement routines that will be used on that particular CMM to a folder I created within the Hexagon folder. Then I will change the Set Search Path to that folder location for the Probe Directory. Then use the Global Used within the Probe Utilities to add the probe angles for each probe build in the probe rack. Once all of the probe angles are created, I have a script that is called from each measurement routine to save as the routine locally to a folder created by the script. Now I will use that folder to create all of the probe angles for the current measurement routines. The current measurement routines are the latest routines with the current template builds. When completed I will change the Set Search Path back to the required directories. For the Auto calibration routine, I use a routine template using trace fields to allow a user to add the probe builds names and number of probe racks. This allows one routine template to be used to create individual Auto Calibration routines for each CMM.

What lead me to this method was to find a method that can be scalable and try to limit the number of separate scripts and applications created. The one difficult part that I found was the limitation of building the Parameter sets using a star probe builds with multiple probe qualification tools. Especially for the 5-way star probe builds for Tip 5 with a rotational wrists head.