Say I have a parameter set which was just calibrated. If run a program which includes a tip from that parameter set, and another tip that is not; should I expect measurement error between the 2 tips?
That depends on how you do the calibrations of the tips. When you answer "YES, the sphere has moved" the calibration chain is broken, and you have no correlation between tips calibrated
before that moment, and tips calibrated
after (unless you follow the "Master Tip" procedure to re-locate the datum sphere when it has moved).
You can always verify your tips by measuring a sphere once with each tip, and compare the XYZ and DIAM - if they are not the same (within machine spec) your tips are not correlated.
Depending on your CMM/controller, the relation may be broken if there is a machine stop/start and/or homing between the two calibrations.
Say I have a parameter set which was just calibrated. If run a program which includes a tip from that parameter set, and another tip that is not; should I expect measurement error between the 2 tips?
That depends on how you do the calibrations of the tips. When you answer "YES, the sphere has moved" the calibration chain is broken, and you have no correlation between tips calibrated
before that moment, and tips calibrated
after (unless you follow the "Master Tip" procedure to re-locate the datum sphere when it has moved).
You can always verify your tips by measuring a sphere once with each tip, and compare the XYZ and DIAM - if they are not the same (within machine spec) your tips are not correlated.
Depending on your CMM/controller, the relation may be broken if there is a machine stop/start and/or homing between the two calibrations.
