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  • Offset Force? What is best?

    Good morning all. So I have run into an issue will scanning where the probe tip comes off the part 3/4 of the way into the scan of a circle. I started looking into my setting and found that the offset force for the scan was set to .003 which seemed a…

  • COP Export for Scan Data

    When I use the COP command to export TTP strategy features in PC-DMIS it works just fine. But for whatever reason when I setup the point cloud to export scanned features, it deselects only the scanned features and never exports them in my point cloud…

  • Adaptive Plane Circle Scan/Scannng Round Planes

    Guru's It has been ages since I have used the rotary scan function/freeform scan function, but we keep getting more round shaped parts with planes and more ridiculous tolerance where 4 points and constructed BF plane isn't cutting it for data/heatmaps…

  • Surface Profile Callout Differences Between Individual and Combined Scans in PC-DMIS

    I’ve been working with PC-DMIS and noticed discrepancies when analyzing surface profile callouts on grouped scanned data. Here’s what I’m observing, and I’d like to confirm if my understanding of the underlying calculations is correct. Observations…

  • I have a question about surface thicknes.

    How can we measure surface thicknes in PC DMIS?

  • Computer Crash During Leaprfroj

    I work in the automotive industry and I am scanning the body of a car. I measured points with the center to probe to have for reference to possibly help align in the future to compare bodies. My PC crashed when I was in the middle of a leapfrog, and I…

  • Scanning a radius

    At my shop, we have a radius we're trying to scan. We aligned the part using the OD and the outer edge of the part for the plane. Then, I set up a linear open scan over the 1.412 radius (attached is a dxf of the print). We've now run into the issue…

  • Different readings between Location and GD&T

    Hello all, I am having a strange occurrence happening when I go to do my measurements and I was curious if it was something I was doing, something PC-DMIS is doing, or if I am just misunderstanding how GD&T effects measurements. I am doing a cylinder…

  • Manually removing probe tips on a scanning head.

    Hello all, My companies newest machine came with a scanning style probe holder( HP-S-X1H ​) and I am unsure how to remove the probe manually. while it is new I would like to know this for when we need to do preventative maintenance on the styli…

  • Touch Trigger probes on a scanning head

    Hello all, I am a new programmer who is helping build up my companies probe stock. We have an old touch trigger CMM that uses 2m threads and we have just bought a new 7,10,7 with a scanning head which uses a 3m thread. Looking through Hexagons…

  • Perimeter scan - Does CAD matter after initial creation?

    I am trying to perform a perimeter scan on a rather petite surface whose size is comparable to it deviation in location. In other words, the position of the surface will occasionally vary by a greater distance that the features size. So I am taking many…

  • Point of intersection between a line and a cloud of points?

    Hello to everyone! I'm looking for a method that allows me to obtain the point of intersection between a line and a cloud of points (or a mesh) obtained through a laser scanner (see the attachment).. is this possible? Attached Files

  • Spiral scanning IDs

    We're slowly replacing our old PFXs and replacing them with Global S Green & Blue CMMs with the Leitz / Hexagon scanning head. I've used spiral scanning with Zeiss CMMs with pretty good success on small holes (Ø3.25mm x 16mmL) and wanting to know how…

  • Comparing two COPs of the same part

    Hello, We use our arm for measuring parts after test. Right now trying to see if we can compare a scan of a sample taken before test to a scan of the same sample taken after test. Our romer arm and sample fixture don't move so I don't think I need…

  • Barrier needed

    Not really sure where to exactly i should've posted this but its here now. I am recently new to CMM so im still learning alot. That being said I have a slight issue with something im trying to do with my CMM I am trying to do an adaptive circle scan on…

  • SP25m & scanning

    Global Image, 3.7mr1. When I run a part program with a probe build that has a TP20 then try to run a part program that has a probe build for scanning I get "Emergency Error" and have to press m/c start to run the program. Has anyone had this problem?…

  • Adaptive circle scan strategy on autocircle stalls after measuring.

    2018 R1, with part CAD: This might be a rather isolated incident, but I tried making an auto-circle with scanning strategy on. The feature is a 0.8" radius with only 10° of functional arc segment surface. I manually overrode scan strategy values…

  • How to change Find_Noms Preference for SCANS

    I'm performing a Find_Noms Scan and while executing it, I got the good ol' error asking me to adjust my tolerance. I mistakenly told it to delete the hits that didnt meet the tolerance: How can I undo this? now whenever I run the feature it will delete…

  • HELP : Creating PointCloud Color Maps causing program to not respond

    First time poster here. Looking for help. When using pointcloud color maps of scan data against a CAD model, for a filtered and CAD cleaned pointcloud size of 700k points, the program cannot keep up, leading to long periods of non-responsiveness,…

  • Measuring Thickness at Specific Points Using Scan Data

    Hi Guys, We make a lot of relatively thin, flat parts, many of which are in a high-nickel ferrous alloy (so they're a pain to machine well) and many of which have tight tolerances on the thickness and/or flatness of the large sides. Because the parts…

  • Measurement of scan length

    I work in a facility where we make transmission insulators for power lines. We have to measure what they call leakage per customer drawing. We recently purchased a CMM machine and now EVERYONE wants EVERYTHING checked on it. Of course it's a new toy I…

  • Scanning Outline

    Hello, Can anyone help me understand why after I preform a scan my scanning outline has a couple of spots where the line deviates to the inside or the outside and is not consistent all the way around the part? I'm attaching a picture below with the…

  • Scanning Report

    I'm trying to create a scanning report that one of our engineers is looking for. I'm attaching a picture but what they want to see is an outline of the low tolerance of a profile, an outline of the max outline of a profile and an outline of where the…

  • Body axis scan question

    Hello everyone, I’m using body axis scan to create 3D lines then intersect the lines. One line horizontal and the other roughly vertical. My concern is the lines are not where I expect they would be. For example I set a body axis scan for Z-6.000…

  • Lines to Spheres Scan appearance?

    I searched the forum and came up empty handed. I have 2 seats of PcDmis one shows scans as small little black lines and the other shows them as spheres and colored according to deviation. I want both to be colored spheres. Anyone? Lines: Spheres…
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