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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 want to thank everyone that helped me with this readpoint alignment business. With a little work and tweaking, it works fantastically. I did a rough dcc alignment after the readpoint in places that I knew I could refer back to my datum targets, and then did my actual full on dcc alignment using my datums targets, and it worked from start to finish flawlessly.

    And I never took a single manual hit. just put the tip where the comment said, and hit execute. Presto. It ran through the rough dcc, then went to the datum dcc, and the my alignment is right where the center lines on my print intersect. Even when I zoom in really really close my trihedron is right on the money.

    Thanks soo much guys. I think I will be working with this much much more, with parts that are on fixed fixtures.
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  • I want to thank everyone that helped me with this readpoint alignment business. With a little work and tweaking, it works fantastically. I did a rough dcc alignment after the readpoint in places that I knew I could refer back to my datum targets, and then did my actual full on dcc alignment using my datums targets, and it worked from start to finish flawlessly.

    And I never took a single manual hit. just put the tip where the comment said, and hit execute. Presto. It ran through the rough dcc, then went to the datum dcc, and the my alignment is right where the center lines on my print intersect. Even when I zoom in really really close my trihedron is right on the money.

    Thanks soo much guys. I think I will be working with this much much more, with parts that are on fixed fixtures.
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