Illumination Calibration Files & Different Materials

With a cmmv, I think you can name different cmmv on the same one, each of a have different settings (but I'd never try to do it). On a vision cmm, I don't think it's possible like this...

I've just came back from vision training at Hex, In our case we are only inspecting one part and it was suggested to calibrate against that material instead of a piece of paper. Not sure if a parameter per material can be set up.

I spoke briefly on this with my calibration technician Roger Conway from Hexagon. Great guy I might add if any of you work with him. His suggestion is just to create another probe file with the same exact tip but add in the name of the calibration you use. So I use 5x, 10x, 20x Nikon lens but I could have 3 probes built for my 10x, one for each material and then calibrate illumination to that material it is labeled with. It was a pretty simple idea but effective.

However I remember in my training that there is a way to recall a specific calibration file and it is essentially like naming a separate probe file however you just pull the illumination file not the whole cal file. So you would calibrate the same probe to that material and then save and label the illumination.cal file I think it is and recall it using some line of scripting. I have little experience with scripting but I have gotten some to work. If I get it to work I will share of course!