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Do away with manual alignments - use Readpoint

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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  • Those are the discovery moments that keep me going. It's great to sit down and work out how it all needs to go together and first getting it to run and then getting it to run and report right. I'm in the middle of trying to dial in equating an alignment. I can get it all working right, and my simplified test passed with flying colors, but for some reason my true position results are a little suspect on the features that are measured after I move the part....I feel like I'm close tho!
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  • Those are the discovery moments that keep me going. It's great to sit down and work out how it all needs to go together and first getting it to run and then getting it to run and report right. I'm in the middle of trying to dial in equating an alignment. I can get it all working right, and my simplified test passed with flying colors, but for some reason my true position results are a little suspect on the features that are measured after I move the part....I feel like I'm close tho!
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