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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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  • I believe that it is doing exactly what you want it to do. Your machine is reading the location of your probe as it passes that command. If you were to load your machine with the part, place the probe at your desired location then hit "Execute", it should do exactly what you are asking it to do. The most common practice, in my experience, is to put an operator comment telling where you want your probe to be at the start of the program.
    There are other options if you are trying to make it a fully automated program without any operator interaction (with the exception of setting up the part correctly), but that would be in an entirely different thread.
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  • I believe that it is doing exactly what you want it to do. Your machine is reading the location of your probe as it passes that command. If you were to load your machine with the part, place the probe at your desired location then hit "Execute", it should do exactly what you are asking it to do. The most common practice, in my experience, is to put an operator comment telling where you want your probe to be at the start of the program.
    There are other options if you are trying to make it a fully automated program without any operator interaction (with the exception of setting up the part correctly), but that would be in an entirely different thread.
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