i had a program giving bad data (.005 oot) for a length characteristic on a production floor cmm. this was verified in the gage lab with an open setup.
i ran the program on the gage lab cmm and got good data (matched the open setup).
i swapped out the tp20 and tip on the production floor cmm, reran the same program and part, and got good data (matched the open setup and gage lab cmm).
i then ran the same program with the same part on the gage lab machine with the "bad" tp20 and tip and got good data.
its a 3x30 tip in 0,0 orientation. no other orientations seem to be offering contrary data.
thoughts?