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Probe diameter vs. probe thickness

I ran across an issue the other day I have not seen before. I run 2013 MR1 and ran my program twice successfully, went to measure the third part and all my measurements were off by the radius of my probe tip. Upon investigation i found that the probe diameter was scaled to 1/25.4 the probe thickness. I don't know how this could happen automatically, because i did not mess with any of these settings. For some reason, PC-DMIS thinks that my thickness is in inches and tries to convert the diameter to mm, causing the scaling issue. Which still doesn't make sense that my measurements are only off by the radius of my probe tip, when in actuality should be off by more if it thinks the probe diameter is 1/25.4 the size of what it actually should be.

I then wrote a quick program using 2012 and all 3 of our probes work in 2012 without fail.

Any suggestions out there on what could have happened and how to fix it would be greatly appreciated, unless this is some sort of bug that I will need to get fixed.
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  • Wow, is all I can say....


    This is even worse than the version they released that had a serious issue with the VECTOR point, that they knew was there when they released it, but, since a BIG CUSTOMER had to have that, they released it anyway, without warning anyone about it.

    How often do you think people are going to want to delete ALL the PRB files and then RE-BUILD ALL the PRB files, then RE-CALIBRATE all the PRB files.... and what are "operators" going to do about it? What CAN they do about it? NOTHING. Sweet!!!!!
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  • Wow, is all I can say....


    This is even worse than the version they released that had a serious issue with the VECTOR point, that they knew was there when they released it, but, since a BIG CUSTOMER had to have that, they released it anyway, without warning anyone about it.

    How often do you think people are going to want to delete ALL the PRB files and then RE-BUILD ALL the PRB files, then RE-CALIBRATE all the PRB files.... and what are "operators" going to do about it? What CAN they do about it? NOTHING. Sweet!!!!!
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