recently i bought new ruby ball tips for my portable romer omega arm. in my nievity i thought that different dia ruby tips could be screwed in and used with exisisting probes e.g using a 5 mm diax10mm in a 6mm dia probe. when i measure it still thinks i have a 6mm dia ball in the probe. can i change anything in pcdimis which recognises that its a 5mm ball in the probe?
As my previous post on tip replacement, the probes are "smart"-- they self-identify to the arm what size the ruby ball is, so you cannot put any old tip in the probe--because you can't change the resistor in the probe that tells the arm "this probe has a 5mm ball tip", etc. A new tip must be the exact same size as the old one, and you must recalibrate the tip when you do so. This is so you can "hot swap" probes. So it's the arm that's doing this, not PC-DMIS.
As my previous post on tip replacement, the probes are "smart"-- they self-identify to the arm what size the ruby ball is, so you cannot put any old tip in the probe--because you can't change the resistor in the probe that tells the arm "this probe has a 5mm ball tip", etc. A new tip must be the exact same size as the old one, and you must recalibrate the tip when you do so. This is so you can "hot swap" probes. So it's the arm that's doing this, not PC-DMIS.
