Camio 8.

4 SP1
Manual Alignment without CAD

Training Manual
YDT0053_B1
Contents
1 Prerequisites 1

2 Purpose of Alignments 1
2.1 Six Degrees of Freedom .................. .................................... .................................. 2
2.2 Primary, Secondary & Tertiary Datums .................................................................. 2
2.3 Location Fixture for a Cubic Part ............................................................................ 3
2.4 Locating the Part in a Fixture .......... ..................................... .................................. 3
2.5 Plane Line Point Analogy................................... .................................... ................ 4
3 Create Basic Inspection 5

4 Plane Line Point 8

5 Cylinder Plane Circle Alignment 15

6 Three Plane Alignment Wizard 21

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1 Prerequisites
This guide assumes you are have previously created and calibrated a probe at 5
perpendicular angles for part inspection.
This guide assumes that you can take touch points with a CMM.
This guide assumes you do not have a CAD model for the part you will be measuring.

2 Purpose of Alignments
In this guide you will learn the importance and purpose of aligning the datum point within
CAMIO to the datum point of the part. You will also learn the skills required to create a
manual alignment on a part using various features. This is a pre-requisite for the more
accurate automatic alignments, and must not be used as a replacement.
When placed on the CMM table, a part's position and orientation to the CMM is unknown and
must be established before any automatic dimensions can be reported. The same is true
when you measure a part manually, you must align the part to the surface you are using to
locate the part, e.g. a surface table or a box plate. If you do not align the part, any
measurements that you take will be relative to either the CMM’s axes or worse still, the last
axis system that CAMIO remembers! The figure below shows a 3 dimensional view of the
capability part mis-aligned to the CMM axes.

Component axis system

CMM's axis system

For example, if CAMIO is restarted and you use the Measure Circle command to measure a
hole
on the Z face, you are actually measuring an ellipse. This would result in the incorrect
diameter and hole co-ordinates being produced.

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Purpose of Alignments

2.1 Six Degrees of Freedom

When fixturing a component, the rules are that you must constrain the six degrees of
freedom of the part, i.e. three linear and three rotational movements, see the figure below.

These six degrees of freedom can be further sub divided into three categories known as

primary, secondary and tertiary.

2.2 Primary, Secondary & Tertiary Datums

When creating a fixture or axis system you need to divide the alignment features into an
order of precedence.
Primary represents the feature used as the first datum for the part and is unique, i.e. it is not
related to or controlled by any other feature.
Secondary represents the second datum feature which is always assumed to be normal (at
right angles) to the primary feature but is freely rotating about the axis of the primary feature.
Tertiary represents the third datum feature and is always assumed to be normal to the
secondary and primary features. As a result of this control, the tertiary datum is more of a
positional datum than an rotational datum.

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2.3 Location Fixture for a Cubic Part

So a simple fixture to locate, say a cube, has to provide a means of preventing these
movements. For example, 3 pads for the part to rest on and stop the up/down movement.
Two pins to stop the left/right (or rotational) movement and a single pin to stop the
forward/backward movement.

3 point location to support the part and prevent vertical movement

2 point location support to prevent part lateral movement

1 point location to prevent longitudinal movement

2.4 Locating the Part in a Fixture

When the part is placed in the fixture (image below) and pushed against the pins, it is
securely located and ready for inspection (assuming that the base plate lies in the reference
plane).

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Plane Line Point Alignment

5. Add the code to the program by pressing theApply button in the ribbon toolbar.

6. Navigate to the Alignment tab and select 3-2-1 Alignment from the Basic section. In the
Create Datum dialog box that appears set the axis alignment and srcin for
"Datum_A_Manual" as shown in the window below.
Set datum label to "Man-Pri" as this datum contains only the primary feature.
Set the primary label to "Man_A" and feature to "Datum_A_Manual", which you just
created.
Set the axis of the feature to +Z and srcin to Z.
Ensure the Secondary and Tertiary features are disabled.
Click OK.

7. Set the secondary axis and origin from the inspection of aline, shown as datum B in the
drawing above. Navigate to theTactile tab and select Line from the 2D Features section.
This line will be used to set the X-axis and Y srcin.

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 Plane Line Point Alignment

8. Using the CMM handbox, take 2 points for a line on the secondary axis. The first point
will set the srcin of the line, and the second point will set the direction, so the order is
important. Suggested touch points and their order are numbered on the model below.The
points will appear in the program window.

9. Select the line in the Program window. Navigate to theProperties window to change the
line name to something more appropriate such as "Datum_B_Manual".
10. Add the code to the program by pressing theApply button in the ribbon toolbar.

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Plane Line Point Alignment

11. Repeat the alignment and srcin for the plane using "Datum_B_Manual" to set the X axis
and Y srcin.
Set the datum name to "Man-Sec"
Set the primary datum point as before.
Set the secondary label to "Man_B", and feature to "Datum_B_Manual".
Set the secondary axis to +X and srcin to Y.
Ensure the Tertiary feature is disabled.
Click OK.

12. Set the tertiary srcin from the inspection of a point, shown as datum C on the drawing
above. Navigate to theTactile tab and select Point from the 2D Features section. This
point will control the X-axis srcin.

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 Plane Line Point Alignment

13. Using the CMM handbox take a point on the front face of the part as suggested below.
The point will appear in theProgram window.

14. Select the point in theProgram window. Navigate to theProperties window and change
the plane name to something more memorable such as "Datum_C_Manual".
15. Add the code to the program by pressing theApply button in the ribbon toolbar.

16. Repeat the alignment and srcin for all three axis, using:
Set the datum name to "Man-Ter"
Set the primary and secondary datum point as before.
Set the tertiary label to "Man_C" and feature to "Datum_C_Manual".
Set the tertiary srcin to X.
Click OK.

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Three Plane Alignment Wizard

8. After all points have been taken the DMIS code for each feature measurement and
alignment will automatically be added to the program. The alignment is now complete.
The CAD reference axis will be aligned to your three planes as shown below.

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