New to CAD... what's wrong???

[kthompson]

I imported the bsblockm.igs into a file, then I've tried to offline program an alignment matching the alignment of the cad. after that, I run a dcc mode plane off the top surface, and it keeps crashing my probe, trying to find a point deeper than the top surface...

the manual is not a lot of help with this... you guys are my best source... HELP!


thanks


kev


here's the code in case anyone needs to see it... and fyi... when I did the clearplane, I was originally using zplus .5mm, but it would crash the side, so I had to finally set it at 5.0mm to get it to clear what should be zero... ???


thanks again!

PART NAME  : cad_test_mm
REV NUMBER : 
SER NUMBER : 
STATS COUNT : 1
 
STARTUP    =ALIGNMENT/START,RECALL:, LIST= YES
            ALIGNMENT/END
            MODE/MANUAL
            PREHIT/ 0.05
            RETRACT/ 0.05
            LOADPROBE/3X40MM
            TIP/T1A0B0, SHANKIJK=0, 0, 1, ANGLE=0
            FORMAT/TEXT,OPTIONS,HEADINGS,SYMBOLS, ;NOM,TOL,MEAS,DEV,OUTTOL, , 
            WORKPLANE/ZPLUS
PLN1       =FEAT/PLANE,RECT
            THEO/102.831,37.011,0,0,0,1
            ACTL/153.221,178.209,-504.631,0.0002112,0.0003389,0.9999999
            MEAS/PLANE,3
            HIT/BASIC,76.026,12.14,0,0,0,1,136.704,159.832,-504.621,USE THEO = YES
            HIT/BASIC,78.346,86.754,0,0,0,1,137.784,212.982,-504.639,USE THEO = YES
            HIT/BASIC,154.12,12.14,0,0,0,1,185.176,161.813,-504.632,USE THEO = YES
            ENDMEAS/
LN1        =FEAT/LINE,RECT,UNBND
            THEO/27.94,0,-1.497,1,0,0
            ACTL/72.285,147.863,-507.669,0.9999854,-0.0054032,0
            MEAS/LINE,2,WORKPLANE
            HIT/BASIC,27.94,0,-1.497,0,-1,0,72.285,147.863,-507.669,USE THEO = YES
            HIT/BASIC,200.66,0,-1.497,0,-1,0,115.648,147.628,-507.671,USE THEO = YES
            ENDMEAS/
LN2        =FEAT/LINE,RECT,UNBND
            THEO/0,8.703,-20.605,0,1,0
            ACTL/59.825,156.235,-525.125,0.0077581,0.9999699,0
            MEAS/LINE,2,WORKPLANE
            HIT/BASIC,0,8.703,-20.605,-1,0,0,59.825,156.235,-525.125,USE THEO = YES
            HIT/BASIC,0,78.33,-20.605,-1,0,0,60.066,187.265,-525.115,USE THEO = YES
            ENDMEAS/
A1         =ALIGNMENT/START,RECALL:STARTUP, LIST= YES
            ALIGNMENT/LEVEL,ZPLUS,PLN1
            ALIGNMENT/ROTATE,XPLUS,TO,LN1,ABOUT,ZPLUS
            ALIGNMENT/TRANS,XAXIS,LN2
            ALIGNMENT/TRANS,YAXIS,LN1
            ALIGNMENT/TRANS,ZAXIS,PLN1
            ALIGNMENT/END
            CLEARP/ZPLUS,5,ZPLUS,0
            COMMENT/OPER,DCC Mode!
            MODE/DCC
PLN2       =FEAT/PLANE,RECT
            THEO/118.939,44.228,0,0,0,1
            ACTL/59.572,-103.554,504.578,-0.0002094,-0.0003401,0.9999999
            MEAS/PLANE,4
            MOVE/CLEARPLANE
            HIT/BASIC,76.8,10.207,0,0,0,1,17.616,-137.803,504.558,USE THEO = YES
            HIT/BASIC,79.506,86.754,0,0,0,1,19.909,-61.242,504.584,USE THEO = YES
            HIT/BASIC,164.558,64.718,0,0,0,1,105.079,-82.818,504.595,USE THEO = YES
            HIT/BASIC,154.893,15.233,0,0,0,1,95.682,-132.355,504.576,USE THEO = YES
            ENDMEAS/

[Virgil UK]

Try increasing your prehit/retract to 4mm+. You only have .002" hit prehit/retract.

[kthompson]

yeah... I just saw that... came in here to delete the post before anyone saw how dumb that was... hehehe... it's these 3rd shift hours... I forgot I was working in mm...


thanks!



Kevin