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Do away with manual alignments - use Readpoint

Butch
Hi Everyone
I am fairly new to PCDMIS being a Mitutoyo programmer for the last 10 years (Booo). The training I had on PCDMIS was reliant on a MANUAL setup before going into DCC mode. By going straight into DCC mode position your probe over its start point. Then you can insert a READ POINT. Then put the XYZ origin on the READ POINT and hey presto your probe has a X0, Y0 and Z0 starting point. You can now do a rough setup by getting the CMM mode to search for your part elements.
This can still then be skipped if not required for further parts. Why go to the lengths of manual probing when the CMM will do it for you?

I am enjoying the new challenge of PCDMIS and can see that it is deep and dark. By using code instead of set routines like the Mitutoyo I realise it can be a lot more flexible. Now if I only knew all the codeing tricks?
Please look out for my questions appearing.

Butch
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  • Read Point alignments are taught in the level 2 course as they are a very good way to easily start the machine in DCC mode. However, if you don't understand 6 degrees of freedom, or fixturing principles, new programmers will have a rough time when the part is not set up the way they programmed it. Manual alignments can give you freedom to set the part any way you need to and at any angle within probing limits and will still work properly. Manual alignments are also taught to help new programmer get used to probing, looking at vectors and editing features without fear of crashing.
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  • Read Point alignments are taught in the level 2 course as they are a very good way to easily start the machine in DCC mode. However, if you don't understand 6 degrees of freedom, or fixturing principles, new programmers will have a rough time when the part is not set up the way they programmed it. Manual alignments can give you freedom to set the part any way you need to and at any angle within probing limits and will still work properly. Manual alignments are also taught to help new programmer get used to probing, looking at vectors and editing features without fear of crashing.
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