Auto Calibration Program - Centering Probe Before Wrist Angle Changes

First off, if it's after the calibration cycle has completed, this can often be that it's indexing back to the Tip angle it was at at the astart of qualification

So if you have 

LOADPROBE/5BY50

TIP/T1A0B0

CALIBRATE/PROBE

After the Auto Qual it will index back to A0B0

So simply changing the TIP/A0B0 can often overcome this.

If however it's crashing during the cycle, there are a couple of options.

You can select a user defined order of tips to overcome this (saved as a parameter set), or have multiple Auto Qual commands (again, using parameter sets, but with necessary move points in between).

First off, if it's after the calibration cycle has completed, this can often be that it's indexing back to the Tip angle it was at at the astart of qualification

So if you have 

LOADPROBE/5BY50

TIP/T1A0B0

CALIBRATE/PROBE

After the Auto Qual it will index back to A0B0

So simply changing the TIP/A0B0 can often overcome this.

If however it's crashing during the cycle, there are a couple of options.

You can select a user defined order of tips to overcome this (saved as a parameter set), or have multiple Auto Qual commands (again, using parameter sets, but with necessary move points in between).

Very helpful info. So the program will revert to whatever tip angle that probe was at before the auto calibrate command? I think user defined order may be the best way to do it... so many tip angles though. There's no way in the probe setup to travel a negative distance along the probe vector? I guess that would be bad for downward angles though. Thanks for the help though I might just go for user defined order.

Just to clarify: If the angle is, for example, A30B90 before the auto calibration: the probe will return to that angle at the completion of the autocalibrate command?

Yep.

Also if it helps, the default cal order is smallest A angle, then smallest B to largest B.  Then the next smallest A angle, then all the B's at that angle and so on.

Yeah I noticed that. I think it always starts at the same end of the B angles, for example A30B180, A30B90, A30B0, A30B-90, A30B-180, then A45B180 rather than A45B-180... I think I'll do user defined and set it to go in that order instead if that makes sense.