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Auto Calibration Program - Centering Probe Before Wrist Angle Changes

Hello all-

It's pretty much what the title says. I have a calibration program for all my tips and tip angles on a larger machine, and we just got a new, slightly smaller machine. I am able to run the same exact calibration on both machines, but when it's run on our new smaller machine, the wrist angle changes sometime swing into the y-axis leg (new global). Is there any way I can make changes to the probe setup menu of each probe setup box that would center the z axis of the machine over the sphere before doing a wrist angle change?

Please let me know! Thanks to anyone who takes the time to help.

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  • 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?

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  • 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?

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