Working plane

[tnguyen]

Good morning. I am confused about working plane. My question is set up working plane by the machine 's axis or X,Y,Z from Cad model ?
Thanks in advance

[Paul Sarrach]

You start out by going to your "setup Options" Part/CMM" "Part Setup" After that the working plane is whatever plane you are approaching the part in with the probe. Does that make sense?

[Matthew D. Hoedeman]

Work plane CAN be kind of hard to explain, but if you 'get it', then it is easy, if not, it will be hard:

The workplane for a feature is the plane it exists in, for example, a circle is a round feature, if you can see the round shape of the circle from X-, then it is in the X- workplane.

[Paul Sarrach]

you could also see it in the X+, The plane is from what approach your probe is comming from.

Matt, you are correct, its one of the things either you get or not. It is so easy yet so hard to explain in text form.

[\v/inston]

http://www.wilcoxassoc.com/Erratas/PC-DMIS_3.6/V36/HTM/workingplanelist.htm

[Cumofo]

Work plane is based on the cad model until you make your first alignment, then it is based on your last alignment.