Automated Calibration using probe changer

[Mike N.]

Anyone have advice for writing an automated routine to calibrate all the probes in a rack?

When using a "Auto Calibrate" command and after finishing calibration in a A90,B180 position the ph10 wants to rotate to A0,B0 immediately after. It does this before reading the move command I have inserted to avoid this problem. This causes the tip (depends on length) to rotate into the table.

I realize there are setup options in the calibration for clearance along the shank vector but why is it rotating to A0,B0 before moving to the rack?

Anyone with a program example of how to avoid this would be appreciated.

[Roger Kilpatrick]

Mike,

This is the program I use for a pair of MCR20 tool changers.



PART NAME : 000_TOOL_QUAL
REV NUMBER : A
SER NUMBER : 1
STATS COUNT : 1

STARTUP =ALIGNMENT/START,RECALL:, LIST= YES
ALIGNMENT/END
TEMPCOMP/ORIGIN=0,0,0,Material Coeff=0.000006389,Reference Temp=68
,Hi Threshold=104,Lo Threshold=50,Sensor num=
,X Axis Temp=,Y Axis Temp=,Z Axis Temp=,Part Temp=
MODE/MANUAL
MOVESPEED/ 100
FLY/ON,0.125
FORMAT/TEXT,OPTIONS,HEADINGS,SYMBOLS, ;MEAS,NOM,DEV,TOL,OUTTOL, ,
LOADPROBE/SLOT_1
TIP/T1A0B0, SHANKIJK=0, 0, 1, ANGLE=90
AUTOCALIBRATE/PROBE, PARAMETER_SET=ALL-TIPS-WITH-DEFAULTS, QUALTOOL_MOVED=YES,
SHOW_SUMMARY=NO, OVERWRITE_RESULTSFILE=YES
LOADPROBE/SLOT_2
TIP/T1A0B0, SHANKIJK=0, 0, 1, ANGLE=90
AUTOCALIBRATE/PROBE, PARAMETER_SET=ALL-TIPS-WITH-DEFAULTS, QUALTOOL_MOVED=NO,
SHOW_SUMMARY=NO, OVERWRITE_RESULTSFILE=YES
LOADPROBE/SLOT_3
TIP/T1A0B0, SHANKIJK=0, 0, 1, ANGLE=90
AUTOCALIBRATE/PROBE, PARAMETER_SET=ALL-TIPS-WITH-DEFAULTS, QUALTOOL_MOVED=NO,
SHOW_SUMMARY=NO, OVERWRITE_RESULTSFILE=YES
LOADPROBE/SLOT_4
TIP/T1A0B0, SHANKIJK=0, 0, 1, ANGLE=90
AUTOCALIBRATE/PROBE, PARAMETER_SET=ALL-TIPS-WITH-DEFAULTS, QUALTOOL_MOVED=NO,
SHOW_SUMMARY=NO, OVERWRITE_RESULTSFILE=YES
LOADPROBE/SLOT_5
TIP/T1A0B0, SHANKIJK=0, 0, 1, ANGLE=90
AUTOCALIBRATE/PROBE, PARAMETER_SET=ALL-TIPS-WITH-DEFAULTS, QUALTOOL_MOVED=NO,
SHOW_SUMMARY=NO, OVERWRITE_RESULTSFILE=YES
LOADPROBE/SLOT_6
TIP/T1A0B0, SHANKIJK=0, 0, 1, ANGLE=90
AUTOCALIBRATE/PROBE, PARAMETER_SET=ALL-TIPS-WITH-DEFAULTS, QUALTOOL_MOVED=NO,
SHOW_SUMMARY=NO, OVERWRITE_RESULTSFILE=YES
LOADPROBE/SLOT_7
TIP/T1A0B0, SHANKIJK=0, 0, 1, ANGLE=90
AUTOCALIBRATE/PROBE, PARAMETER_SET=ALL-TIPS-WITH-DEFAULTS, QUALTOOL_MOVED=NO,
SHOW_SUMMARY=NO, OVERWRITE_RESULTSFILE=YES
LOADPROBE/SLOT_8
TIP/T1A0B0, SHANKIJK=0, 0, 1, ANGLE=90
AUTOCALIBRATE/PROBE, PARAMETER_SET=ALL-TIPS-WITH-DEFAULTS, QUALTOOL_MOVED=NO,
SHOW_SUMMARY=NO, OVERWRITE_RESULTSFILE=YES
LOADPROBE/SLOT_9
TIP/T1A0B0, SHANKIJK=0, 0, 1, ANGLE=90
AUTOCALIBRATE/PROBE, PARAMETER_SET=ALL-TIPS-WITH-DEFAULTS, QUALTOOL_MOVED=NO,
SHOW_SUMMARY=NO, OVERWRITE_RESULTSFILE=YES
LOADPROBE/SLOT_10
TIP/T1A0B0, SHANKIJK=0, 0, 1, ANGLE=90
AUTOCALIBRATE/PROBE, PARAMETER_SET=ALL-TIPS-WITH-DEFAULTS, QUALTOOL_MOVED=NO,
SHOW_SUMMARY=NO, OVERWRITE_RESULTSFILE=YES
LOADPROBE/SLOT_11
TIP/T1A0B0, SHANKIJK=0, 0, 1, ANGLE=90
AUTOCALIBRATE/PROBE, PARAMETER_SET=ALL-TIPS-WITH-DEFAULTS, QUALTOOL_MOVED=NO,
SHOW_SUMMARY=NO, OVERWRITE_RESULTSFILE=YES
COMMENT/REPT,

[J Temmen]

Set the order the angles calibrate in and use A0B0 as the last angle.