I came up with an idea to catalog all of the different probe builds that we use at work. We have five CMM's and all different sorts of probes that we use. Some them are of the same build, but have different names because they never came up with any sort of name standardization process over the years. Is there any sort of way that I can output the probe builds into a text format so that I can paste them all into a document? Or do I have to go into PC-DMIS and open the Probe Utilities dialog box and manually type out each component in the probe build as shown below?
Two solutions. "assuming" your probes are stored on a local dive on the PC and not on the network.
1. Go to a cmm copy all the probe files .PRB only. paste those into every other CMM and recalibrate all tips at A0B0 using a Master probe on all cmms that got the copies. every angle will need to be calibrated before being used but at least you know A0B0 works and the actual probe build is correct.
2. Make a excel sheet with two columns probe# and what the build is. For example probe 1 is a 03X50 probe 2 is a 1X100 as probes are built they get a number. our racks hold 15 probes but we have 50 plus builds. there is 1 "Master probe list" that is read only and only our programmers can edit it. Every cmm has a local copy for what is actually loaded in the racks and the operators / inspectors are responsible to edit / confirm it when they get on a CMM. we even mark the pucks with the probe# so that for custom or "not run of the mill" probes are easily identifiable.
we did step 1 then implemented step 2 a few months later. We are going on 3 years and its working well for us on 12 cmms in two states.
Yes, our probe files are all saved locally on the C drive for each CMM. But isn't there a way to open the probe files in Notepad or something so that I can copy/paste the build parts into the spreadsheet?
