MANUALLY PROGRAMMABLE MOTORIZED MACHINE FOR MEASURING COORDINATES
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1. A coordinate measuring machine (CMM) having:
- a measuring head provided with a measuring probe;
one or several measurement axes;
one or several actuators designed to displace said measuring head along said measuring axes;
one or several encoders designed for supplying one or several measurement coordinates of the part to be measured;
a control unit for controlling said actuator or actuators, characterized in that;
the measuring machine includes a programming mode in which said measuring head can be displaced by an operator through manual actions on said measuring head and said control unit is designed for recording the displacements of said measuring head and memorize the measurement points during contact between said measuring probe and said part to be measured;
wherein the measuring machine includes a measuring mode in which said control unit is designed to control said actuators and reproduce the displacements of said measuring head recorded during said programming mode.
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Abstract
Multidimensional coordinate measuring machine having a programming mode in which the measuring head can be displaced manually by an operator and a measuring mode in which a control unit is designed for automatically optimizing and reproducing the displacements of the measuring head recorded during the programming mode.
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1. A coordinate measuring machine (CMM) having:
- a measuring head provided with a measuring probe;
one or several measurement axes;
one or several actuators designed to displace said measuring head along said measuring axes;
one or several encoders designed for supplying one or several measurement coordinates of the part to be measured;
a control unit for controlling said actuator or actuators, characterized in that;the measuring machine includes a programming mode in which said measuring head can be displaced by an operator through manual actions on said measuring head and said control unit is designed for recording the displacements of said measuring head and memorize the measurement points during contact between said measuring probe and said part to be measured; wherein the measuring machine includes a measuring mode in which said control unit is designed to control said actuators and reproduce the displacements of said measuring head recorded during said programming mode. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20)
- a measuring head provided with a measuring probe;
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21. A method for controlling a coordinate measuring machine (CMM), with the machine having:
- a measuring head provided with a measuring probe;
one or several measurement axes;
one or several actuators designed to displace said measuring head along said measuring axes;
one or several encoders designed for supplying one or several measurement coordinates of the part to be measured;
a control unit for controlling said actuator or actuators, said method including;a programming step in which said measuring head is displaced by an operator through manual actions on said measuring head and the displacements of said measuring head and the measurement points during contact between said measuring probe and said part to be measured are memorized by said control unit; and
a measuring step in which said control unit controls said actuators to reproduce the displacements of said measuring head recorded during said programming mode. - View Dependent Claims (22, 23)
- a measuring head provided with a measuring probe;
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