[crabbass]

I have an 08 VF-3, pretty standard, with renishaw probe. I would like to write a probing cycle to use the machine as a CMM. The accuracies I am looking for are pretty easy to obtain +.00/-.01 on a verry complex form. When I say +.00/-.01 I am reffering to the shapes acceptable profile limits. What I'd like to do (but don't know how) is to output the probed coordinates into a spread sheet, or .txt file. I can present an excell spreadsheat with columns of "perfect model" numbers, and the probed parts actual numbers to non mechanical management types without too many difficulties (chair). If my part has 50 points that need probed, I would like a list to be output with x,y,z,a coordinates relative to the work offset.
I don't have the ethernet option.
Any suggestions would be much appreciated.

[pit202]

if you do a probe cycle eg X+ :

G65 P9811 X...

you can add W1 or W2 at the end of line and get some parameters , if this is too much for you , you can write after that line :

DPRNT[X#185[44]*Y#186[44]]

and get only actual X and Y parameters


Peter

[Integrexman]

I have an 08 VF-3, pretty standard, with renishaw probe. I would like to write a probing cycle to use the machine as a CMM. The accuracies I am looking for are pretty easy to obtain +.00/-.01 on a verry complex form. When I say +.00/-.01 I am reffering to the shapes acceptable profile limits. What I'd like to do (but don't know how) is to output the probed coordinates into a spread sheet, or .txt file. I can present an excell spreadsheat with columns of "perfect model" numbers, and the probed parts actual numbers to non mechanical management types without too many difficulties (chair). If my part has 50 points that need probed, I would like a list to be output with x,y,z,a coordinates relative to the work offset.
I don't have the ethernet option.
Any suggestions would be much appreciated.

I do what you are trying to do all the time. I have a Renishaw MP700 probe and the InspectionPlus macros. I am able to ouput XYZIJK (point and vector) data from my CAM system. I made a program that I can input the data and it creates a probing program that uses macros 9810 9821 and 9811 to probe the part. I put a W1 on each line so it writes the data/report to my memory card as a text file. Here is a report example. It shows the target data, actual measurement, tolerence+/- and deviation from target.

-------------------------------------------------------------------
COMPONENT NO 1 FEATURE NO 1
-------------------------------------------------------------------
POSN X 2.7097 ACTUAL 2.7097 TOL TP .0050 DEV .0000
POSN Y- 2.8893 ACTUAL - 2.8910 TOL TP .0050 DEV - .0017
POSN Z- .7588 ACTUAL - .7574 TOL TP .0050 DEV .0014

Here is the code that was used to probe the point above:
G65P9810 X2.6989 Y-3.1802 F100.
G65P9810 Z-0.5224 F100.
G65P9821 X2.7097 Y-2.8893 Z-0.7588 C2 H0.0050 W1

Here is a link to the program and a video probing a part.
http://cncwrite.com/cmm.php

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http://integrexmachinist.com/Video/I.../ProbeFace.mpg