I have been reading the posts for a couple of weeks now. This seems to be a very friendly community.
We are getting ready to install PC DMIS NC on a Makino A100E as a pilot project. In this forum I am what you would call a monkey. I have 25 years of NC machining experience. I have limited programming experience but I am planning to learn Catia V5.
Our goal is to do limited conformity on the machine. We also hope to do statistical process control.
My first question: Hexagon asked us to have a universal datum ball set up to use to calibrate the MP700 probe. I have been using a probe ring that was provided by Renishaw when we bought the probe. My Renishaw guru tells me that the ring will work for what we are doing (5th axis rotary table stacked on B axis. On the parts that I will be running all of my checks will be done on one plane, perpendicular to chord line. Do I need the datum ball?
