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Searched... sorry not finding what I'm looking for. What I did was I changed it to where all my alignments were highlighted pink (old guy told me long ago to do this because mis-alignments are the most...
View ArticleAutocalibrate routine debugging: Master probe calibrate angles
I am about 98% finished with the development of a bada$$ routine to make probe calibration monkey-pressing-a-button friendly. I'm looking for help with the last 2% which is: Master probe gets cal'd...
View ArticleAngle dimension
Hi all i'm looking for some help, i have a customer who is looking for an angle output in both decimal & mins/secs format, i can get it to print out in either one but not in both at same time. Is...
View ArticleCustom Probes
I'm trying to build a custom probe in PCDMIS CAD++ 2014.1. It's not showing up in the probe utilities drop down menu. Any ideas why? Thanks!
View ArticleCylinder as the datum Reference Frame
I will be measuring Hollow cylinders and will need to know the best way to make a Datum Reference Frame to measure ID & OD of the cylinders. This might been without a cad model.
View ArticleProfile inspection
CORRECTION IT'S A PLANE AND -E- IS DIAMETER NOT -B-(E ON SKETCH B ON DRAWING) Hello I'm trying to measure a part that is 32 inches in diameter top plane is -A- diameter is -E- ATTACHED IS SECTION OF...
View ArticleHow to perform pc-dmis software validation for a digital product auditor
I've been working on a romer infinity 2.0 portable cmm with pc-dmis 2010 and 2011 since their release. From time to time my company has our customers conduct digital product audits. These audits have...
View ArticleOpening PCDMIS CAD in other software
I was recently asked by engineering to provide them with the model we are using in one of our programs. The program is fairly old so of course the original location and model that was imported no...
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Hello NinjaBadger Tom Day here from years ago. How are you today? I'm good we picked up a pre-owned Mistral pcdmis I'm using a 1 mm probe tesastar-m tesa tma probe tp 20 and a .197 hole is measuring...
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Hi Adam I was searching for someone who was online. My employer purchased a MISTRAL pcdmis the one mm probe is measuring a .197 hole at .181 the actual hole size measures .197 pin gage (difference of...
View ArticleMutiple parts in one program.
We are about to start a job of about 130 part numbers. There are 7 different configurations where 90% of the part is the same on every part, then there is a assortment of bolt holes & ports.. What...
View Articleissues with defaulted setup pictures
Asking if anyone has experience issues when setup photos are used - primarily from historic or up rev'd programs. Our IT group has removed access to the defaulted viewer – I_view32.exe which has been...
View ArticlePerpendicularity question
We have a scanning program that measures the perpendicularity of a plane to two coaxial ID features. The plane (Datum B) has three drilled hole equally spaced. A GR&R was done on a part three times...
View ArticleGlobal HTA machines
Question for who run this bad boy, does it run on pcdmis or quindos only?
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Hi there, I am revisiting an issue from a few months ago where i now have extra data in the newer version. It was under the tag: csv file problems with 2017 R1. I have uploaded two txt files with data...
View ArticleSetting up hardware definition in Graphic display window
Oke, so I am trying to set up a whole hardware definition (machine, probe and change rack) in the graphic display window, and have some problems with it.. My configuration is: Global S 12.22.10...
View ArticleCMD Commands
Anyone know where I can find a list of the toggles available to running PC-DMIS/Settings Editor? I read somewhere /b will create a silent backup, and /r will restore a backup. I'd like to know what...
View ArticleReporting Parallelism
I am trying to report the parallelism of 3 planes. I have 2 of them set up as different datums. When I try to report out the third plane to the 2 datums, it tells me that the 2 datums are parallel. Am...
View ArticleDimension to far ends of a radius (not the center)
Someone help me out with something please! I need to report from where my alignment is at right now to both the top and bottom radii in the picture (YAXIS). I put a red dot for clarity. Far ends of the...
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