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Forum Friends. I have a question I believe I know the answer. I'm trying to convince my customer. How would you measure the two Radii on the attached drawing? The arc is 30°. Thanks in advance.
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See attached pictures. You can clearly see that auto-circle is not selecting the model properly (IGES). It gives me .2555 when I know the model actually measures at .2550. I tried using PC-Dmis 2015.1...
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Today, as I went to qualify my probe before running a program, when I chose "mark used" for angle selection, the angles selected did not match the probe angles listed in the program. In fact, most "B"...
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I'm trying to make a program that measures the wall thickness of a cone/cylindrical part. The part has ribs on the inside that run up the walls perpendicular to the base of the part. I am trying to...
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I was wondering that is possible to pick up more then one surface when you use auto plane? Imagine that you have to check brake disk with slots
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I was wondering that is possible choose more then one surface? For example if you about to check brake disk with the slots.
View ArticleClear Cube Problem
I'm running PC-DMIS CAD ++ 2016.0 and I've been asked to write a marked set program for a carrier. Basically measuring any and all things that have been a problem in the past and or could be a...
View Article3D BestFit Ver.2016 ≠ 3D BestFit Ver.2017
I have a problem with 3D BestFit Alignment in PC-DMIS 2017. In version 2016 works OK in version 2017 shows some deviations. 3D BF is created from 3 points (3 circles; construct cast point and Specify...
View Article2015.1 sp 8 - auto round slot disable SOLVED: not on license
Update to sp8 and cant see auto feature for round slot & square slot. Does anyone know how to enable those features?
View Articleusing multiple cad models in 1 prg
All, Running PC DMIS CAD++ 2016.0 X64 Build #1080 (SP6)... I have a part that i'd like to measure both sides of. I have two copies of the exact same model. One is saved "part facing up" and the other...
View ArticleImporting CMM and IGES files
We are looking at importing the CMM along with the IGES file to help out CMM programing prove out time. Is there a specific way to do this or a specific order?
View ArticleWhy no RS232 output options in PC-DMIS?
I'm sure this is a very taboo topic, but I was asked to ask on here, by my site director. I'm the messenger, please be easy on me :O Does anyone know of an expression/script workaround to make RS232...
View ArticleError: An unsupported scripting operation was attempted
Hello everyone, I am attempting to run a ballbar program I found in the ServiceUtils folder on my PC but I'm getting this error after running position 1. An unsupported scripting operation was...
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Hi Mathew, I am having a problem. I ordered three probes unfortunately when I tried to build my probe profile the size is not listed. I don't want to say anything to my manager they don't have any clue...
View ArticleAUTO CREATE DIMENSIONs
What are the chances of getting this put back to per program thing instead of a global thing, or is there some setting somewhere that I am missing that makes it "non-global"? This is getting annoying...
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You can: 1) fake it, simply increase your prehit/retract for the first time you calibrate it with it built to the 35 long probe or 2) Open the PROBE.DAT file, copy the 35mm probe data, paste it at the...
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How can i remove notes from my CAD models? Sometimes i get models that have notes in them and get on the way. Also some of this CAD models show the "nutplates" or what it is that the next assy is...
View ArticleStacked Dimension Infos
I run parts on a looped program, where I run a program and at the end there is a comment asking me whether or not I want to load another part, and if yes, the program starts over. I've recently...
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Waiting for response:GETPOS & Waiting for response:SHOW PRBHTY
I have been getting the following messages in the status bar and it boggs down PC-DMIS to where I can't do anything. So I have to exit PC-DMIS and restart it and everything is fine for awhile and then...
View ArticleReporting in Inspect 2.5
I have no use for this app at the moment. However I thought that I would open it and get familiar, should I want to use it in the future. My question is; is it possible to run routines and generate...
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