Today I was running a program on our CMM (Global S Green 9.12.8). Stopped the program as it was going to the first clearplane, and then noticed the CMM bridge was still moving. I turned my controller speed down to 0. Tried to modify in the edit window, and it let me, even while it was running. Then I executed my program while it was "running" and immediately hit cancel it again as I did previously to see if it will overwrite the actions it was reading. I then closed PCDMIS. I turned speed up again to see if it was still moving. It was. So I did a full reboot of the CMM, and it's fine now. Has anyone ever ran into this before? A rogue program running even without the PCDMIS software?
Cris_C &
Ncogneto, If you are performing DEFINED scans (as opposed to RELEARN or NORMAL), that would explain why cancelling execution from PC-DMIS does not stop the machine. For DEFINED scans, PC-DMIS sends a pre-defined scan path to the controller and enters a waiting mode. The controller then takes over and executes the scan, following the path and gathering the data. It then streams the data back to PC-DMIS and notifies it that the scan is complete at which point PC-DMIS takes over again. That is why the only way to interrupt the scan part way through is to hit the E-Stop.
Cris_C &
Ncogneto, If you are performing DEFINED scans (as opposed to RELEARN or NORMAL), that would explain why cancelling execution from PC-DMIS does not stop the machine. For DEFINED scans, PC-DMIS sends a pre-defined scan path to the controller and enters a waiting mode. The controller then takes over and executes the scan, following the path and gathering the data. It then streams the data back to PC-DMIS and notifies it that the scan is complete at which point PC-DMIS takes over again. That is why the only way to interrupt the scan part way through is to hit the E-Stop.
