Lost Probe file Help !!!!

[Philip Bailey]

Hello to all. I came in to work this morning and someone dumped my main probe file. Is there any way I can recover my old probe file with out starting a new one ?

[Matthew D. Hoedeman]

Copy it back to the PC from teh backups that you should be doing?
Look in the recycle bin to see if it is there?
e a DOS boot and use recover (very hard to do, only the old DOS users can probably do this and probably also if the ahrd drive isn't too big).

[bw_bob]

Are you saying they went into your folder that pc-dmis is in and deleted your probe files. If they did then do what matt said. If they are still if the folder then make sure your search path is set to look for them.

[Gregl]

Are you saying they went into your folder that pc-dmis is in and deleted your probe files. If they did then do what matt said. If they are still if the folder then make sure your search path is set to look for them.

and break their hands after that!

[Philip Bailey]

Thanks I will try this and let you know how it turned out ! Philip in Blacksburg, VA

[John Riggins]

Time to learn to build a probe file.

[spazus_maximus]

Speaking of building new probe files....can someone tell me what a hotspot is in the probe.dat file?

[Matthew D. Hoedeman]

Speaking of building new probe files....can someone tell me what a hotspot is in the probe.dat file?

It is the CENTER of the nominal touch-feature, ie the center of a ball.

[spazus_maximus]

Thanks!

Where do you find info on the probe.dat file?

[Matthew D. Hoedeman]

Thanks!

Where do you find info on the probe.dat file?

I just made it up, all on my own. I sat there and guessed/tried/solved what all the 'stuff' meant so I could make some customer probes of my own. Did this WAY BACK before they even had the most of the stuf in there (like, V3.2063). One setup I had to use involved using a knuckle and there was no option in the file for it, so I had to make my own.

[Philip Bailey]

Could not recover it. So off I go to create an new one ! Thank you again for all your help.

[spazus_maximus]

I am fumbling through it now. I had our tool room make me some funny little shank probes..This will be interesting...

[Matthew D. Hoedeman]

I am fumbling through it now. I had our tool room make me some fuzzy little shank probes..This will be interesting...

They made you some FUZZY little shank probes? Why would you want them to model your private parts?

[spazus_maximus]

HEY!! My shanks not FUZZY!!



its ribbed!