Direct Method to Derive CNC Global Offset during Part Measurement on Coordinate Measuring Machine

摘要

The present invention creates a method of integrating the CNC Machine Global Offset calculation framework (1) into the Coordinate Measurement Machine (CMM) program environment (2) where elements required for CNC offset calculation exist. The CNC offsets are calculated during CMM program execution and output to the part Quality Report (3). By integrating the Global Offset calculation with the CMM Program, both the data for the calculation and the offset algorithm exist in the same environment. As items are updated in the CMM program they are automatically updated for the calculation subroutine.