CAD to PART alignment

Hello everyone,

I'm new with CMM and PCDMIS as I started working on Hexagon 7.10.7 machine around 10 days ago and haven't had any training. My question is I find it hard to align imported CAD file to part on machine. When I import my CAD file, I do manual hits for plane, line and point in manual modes and level plane to Z axis and set origin. For line I rotate it Z axis to X axis. After that I enter DCC mode and make plane, line and point on my CAD file. After that my pln1, ln1, pt1 are on place and pln2, ln2, pt2 on another separate place, I can't get it to align properly.

I have done a lot of research, but anything I try doesn't seem to work. Thank you very much in advance.

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0 Matthew D. Hoedeman 11 months ago

IF you are just measuring features by hand, without selecting anything from the cad model, at the end of doing the alignment (level, rotate, origin, origin offsets) you must then click on CAD=PART. That is the easiest way. The harder way is to MANUALLY change the THEO values of each measured feature (XYZIJK values) to what they SHOULD be to match the cad model.

Don't let the nay-sayers tell you "NEVER USE CAD=PART, bla, bla, bla", I've been using it for over 30 years and it works perfectly.
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0 Matthew D. Hoedeman 11 months ago

IF you are just measuring features by hand, without selecting anything from the cad model, at the end of doing the alignment (level, rotate, origin, origin offsets) you must then click on CAD=PART. That is the easiest way. The harder way is to MANUALLY change the THEO values of each measured feature (XYZIJK values) to what they SHOULD be to match the cad model.

Don't let the nay-sayers tell you "NEVER USE CAD=PART, bla, bla, bla", I've been using it for over 30 years and it works perfectly.
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