I'm trying to learn to align to CAD models with a Romer Arm, and one of the threads suggests using the CAD tab in the F5 menu. My Romer Arm doesn't have that tab, but our other DCC machines do. Is this a setting in the settings editor or something?
That dialog is only there when you have a machine with 'real' machine coordinates. The measuring arm doesn't have a table with a fixed relation to the XYZ sensors, so there's nothing to relate to.
Personally, I think it would have been good to be able to tell PC-DMIS at least which CAD axis is 'up', as that direction is relatively certain, even for an arm...
That dialog is only there when you have a machine with 'real' machine coordinates. The measuring arm doesn't have a table with a fixed relation to the XYZ sensors, so there's nothing to relate to.
Personally, I think it would have been good to be able to tell PC-DMIS at least which CAD axis is 'up', as that direction is relatively certain, even for an arm...
That makes sense, but also doesn't make sense. The Romer does have a machine coordinate, it's just related to the orientation of the arm, rather than the space it sits on.
