RS-232 output

[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 . 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 . 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

Best viewed with VLCMedia player.
http://integrexmachinist.com/Video/I.../ProbeFace.mpg