Adding a probe to your arm?

[Chris Murphy]

We got a new 3mm probe for our Romer arm. Someone else here says that they calibrated the probe and that it was ready for use. I keep getting an error saying "Unknown probe file: Romer_Probe4. Check usrprobedat." This error occurs in PCDMIS. I've gone back thru the directions to install the probe as if it hasn't been done yet but I still have the error. Does anyone know what is going wrong? Any suggestions will be appreciated.

-Chris Murphy

[catguy]

It sounds like the probe is not being recognized by WinRDS.
Try performing a search for the "usrprobedat" file, it will more than likely be in the WinRDS folder.
If it's not there, your best bet is to contact tech support.

[ArmUser]

Hi Chirs,

Probe handling on the Romer Arms in PC-DMIS is a fairly convoluted subject...:rolleyes:

The problem is either that you don't have a UserProbe.dat file with a ROMER_PROBE4 QC entry in it.

Make a new text file, and save it as USRProbe.dat in your PD-DMIS directory.

Open the your new USRProbe.dat file up and past the following lines into it.

ITEM:ROMER_PROBE4 QC
begintip
ribcount 10
color 117 117 117
cylinder 0 0 0 0 0 -19 11
color 228 228 228
cylinder 0 0 -19 0 0 -20 11
cone 0 0 -20 11 0 0 -23 5
cylinder 0 0 -23 0 0 -23 5
color 242 242 242
cylinder 0 0 -23 0 0 -26 3
cone 0 0 -26 3 0 0 -30 2
cylinder 0 0 -30 0 0 -44 2
sphere 0 0 -45 3
hotspot 0 0 -45 0 0 1 3 3 fixedball
endtip

Restart PC-DMIS with your new probe on and it should be fine.

Hope this helps.
Doug