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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 am not experienced in this industry, so excuse me if I am talking out of turn, however...

    We skipped all these various methods of alignment and purchased a custom interface for PC-DMIS. So the only options the user has is to select a programme and click RUN. If anyone remembers the MM4, it is similar to that (I know because one of our CMMs run on it).

    However, this works because we use fixtures to attach the components to to ensure the components are placed in the same positions every time by whoever uses it. Nothing in any of our software in this company involves any manual input from the shop floor staff. There is no access to the edit window, and our results get exported to the machine computer for viewing as a PDF. It is literally a case of load the component as shown in the picture on the interface, press run, walk off, come back and remove component when finished, then view results at your own computer. We have dramatically reduced run times, errors and probe damage by doing this. I may not know much, but what I do know is I sleep far easier knowing that any problems that occur are my fault.

    I have read people talking about idiot proofing a programme. Best way to do this is to only let them press RUN, surely?
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  • I am not experienced in this industry, so excuse me if I am talking out of turn, however...

    We skipped all these various methods of alignment and purchased a custom interface for PC-DMIS. So the only options the user has is to select a programme and click RUN. If anyone remembers the MM4, it is similar to that (I know because one of our CMMs run on it).

    However, this works because we use fixtures to attach the components to to ensure the components are placed in the same positions every time by whoever uses it. Nothing in any of our software in this company involves any manual input from the shop floor staff. There is no access to the edit window, and our results get exported to the machine computer for viewing as a PDF. It is literally a case of load the component as shown in the picture on the interface, press run, walk off, come back and remove component when finished, then view results at your own computer. We have dramatically reduced run times, errors and probe damage by doing this. I may not know much, but what I do know is I sleep far easier knowing that any problems that occur are my fault.

    I have read people talking about idiot proofing a programme. Best way to do this is to only let them press RUN, surely?
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