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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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  • You simply have to enter a readpoint...there is no magic here. I almost never program readpoints online at runtime. For example, if I want to use a readpoint to quickly set the center of a ring to go to DCC, and my CAD model has origin in the center of the ring, then I make a readpoint with nominals at 0,0,0. If I want my readpoint to set a rough origin over a hole, I create a temporary auto circle of that hole, note the XYZ coordinates, and then punch them in as nominals for the readpoint I enter next.
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  • You simply have to enter a readpoint...there is no magic here. I almost never program readpoints online at runtime. For example, if I want to use a readpoint to quickly set the center of a ring to go to DCC, and my CAD model has origin in the center of the ring, then I make a readpoint with nominals at 0,0,0. If I want my readpoint to set a rough origin over a hole, I create a temporary auto circle of that hole, note the XYZ coordinates, and then punch them in as nominals for the readpoint I enter next.
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