I have used the clearance cube function with most of the programs I have written when I download a CAD file. Occasionally they don't work. The cube is activated, it is displayed on the graphic window and the probe paths seem to avoid it when run in offline mode, When I run the program online the probe tries to take the shortest distance through the part. Any ideas? I have tried re-writing the program and got the same result. I cant post my code here because our security protocols do not allow the CMM to be connected to our network because of the administrator privilege required to run PCDMIS.
I have tried a few other things to get this working. I wrote a new program, loaded CAD, turned on clearance cube and did the manual and auto alignments and the clearance cube moves worked properly. I copied and pasted some points from another program where clearance cube was not functioning and the points I pasted in did not obey the clearance cube motion but the original points did. I then wrote another program, loaded CAD, did not activate clearance cube, did my alignments and of course there was no clearance cube logic to the moves. I turned clearance cube on and it still did not function. My conclusion is that something is set differently within the point depending on whether or not clearance cube is turned on when the point is created. If so, the help function should specifically address this issue because I can find no way to retro-actively activate clearance cube and I have wasted a lot of time writing my program.
I have tried a few other things to get this working. I wrote a new program, loaded CAD, turned on clearance cube and did the manual and auto alignments and the clearance cube moves worked properly. I copied and pasted some points from another program where clearance cube was not functioning and the points I pasted in did not obey the clearance cube motion but the original points did. I then wrote another program, loaded CAD, did not activate clearance cube, did my alignments and of course there was no clearance cube logic to the moves. I turned clearance cube on and it still did not function. My conclusion is that something is set differently within the point depending on whether or not clearance cube is turned on when the point is created. If so, the help function should specifically address this issue because I can find no way to retro-actively activate clearance cube and I have wasted a lot of time writing my program.
