Originally Posted by
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.