feature control frame trihedron outta whack!

[john d]

I just received version 4.0 of pc dmis and installed it. However the feature control frame trihedron, does not match the part current alignment trihedron.
The part current alignment trihedron has x going left to right. Y is going away from you and z is coming straight out of the table. The fcf trihedron is pointing z in the y direction, x in the z direction, and y in the x direction. This is giving me some funky numbers in the fcf box, and is taking a number that is in the x direction and saying it is in the y direction on the report and such.
Thanks, any help would be appreciated.

[tking]

Well, 3.7 mr3, at the splash screen, click edit, click machine interface setup, click axis tab and correct the axes. I think that'll get you going.

TK

[Paul Sarrach]

Are you using CAD? Look at what you leveled an rotated to in your alignment.

[JamesMannes]

Other than what Paul said, are you speaking of the target plot associated with the true position? If you are speaking of the target plot it is work plane dependent. I learned this while working with DATPAGE, it too is workplane dependent. I may be missing something as I haven't seen a trihedron associated with the FCF(Feature Cntrol Frame). It should be noted that I am normally using Legacy reporting.

[david phillips]

fcf trihedron

I have the same problem.
called tech. support.
Informed them of the problem I was having.

emailed program to look over.
got a call back stating that there was no problem with program.
they could not repoduce it.

currently using old style tp.

[john d]

tking, I went to the edit window, and under the axis tab, the x y z axis's matched x y and z. No luck there, any other ideas??

[john d]

paul, I am not using cad.

[john d]

James Mannes, the part that is manually probed has a part current alignment, it is the little trihedron with the x y and z axis, in red, the same xyz that is used to make an alignment. When legacy dimensions are used, and I was using a true position dimension, there appears in the same window as the part is, a littler feature control frame trihedron. I believe that these two trihedrons are supposed to be pointing in the same directions, however, mine are not. On the fcf trihedron, x is z, z is y, and y is x.

[john d]

David Phillips, Yes, I have also experienced this, I think they do that when they have no idea!!

[JamesMannes]

I am qualifying right now, but when doen I will look at this (I will assume that I will get the same results I just haven't seeen it yet?)