CALYPSO

Option 15
CALYPSO dme

Operating Instructions
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CALYPSO
Version 2021
Operating Instructions
2021-04-29
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Table of contents

Preface

Information about these operating instructions .................. Preface 1

Configuration of safety instructions .................................... Preface 3

Chapter 1 CALYPSO dme (Option)

Introduction: CALYPSO DME interface (option) ............................. 1-2

CALYPSO and the DME interface................................................... 1-3

Function of the DME interface................................................................................ 1-3
Compatibility of measurement plans up to V4.4 ..................................................... 1-3
Not available functions........................................................................................... 1-4

Using the DME interface ............................................................... 1-6

Operating sequence of the DME interface .............................................................. 1-6
Settings for DME.................................................................................................... 1-6
DME - Defining features....................................................................................... 1-11
DME – Defining characteristics ............................................................................. 1-12
Controlling a measurement via DME .................................................................... 1-13

Alphabetic index

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Preface

Information about these operating instructions

The CALYPSO program consists of a base module and additional options
for special purposes. You can customize the scope of program to fit your
requirements.
These operating instructions describe an option of CALYPSO and are
based on the assumption that the user is familiar with the operating in-
structions for the base module of CALYPSO.

NOTE
The additional CALYPSO options are described in separate manuals.

Reference information about the windows and dialogs can be found in

the dialog reference in the CALYPSO Online Help.

Simply Measure – And what you should know to do it right, A metrol-

ogy primer
Carl Zeiss, Industrial Metrology Division,
Order no.: 612302-9002

Text conventions The following text conventions are used in these instructions.

Example Description
Features Text element of the graphics
screen display.
Comment The Comment button on the
screen.
<machine name> Variable text or dummy for a
name.
C:\windows\w.ini The w.ini file in the windows di-
rectory on the C:\ drive.
For this section... A passage containing important
information.

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Example Description
➤ Preface [⇨ Preface-1] This is a cross reference. When
viewing this manual on the
screen, you will be guided to the
indicated text passage by clicking
the reference.
Plan " CNC-Start " Run The Run command in the CNC-
Start submenu of the Plan
menu.
CTRL+A Press the CTRL key and the letter
A at the same time.

Icons Three special symbols containing important information are used in this
manual. The icons appear in the marginal column next to the respective
text.
You will find a detailed explanation of the safety instructions under Con-
figuration of safety instructions.

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 Configuration of safety instructions

Configuration of safety instructions

Safety instructions indicate a personal health hazard. We distinguish
three different levels: Danger, warning and caution. All three safety in-
structions are marked with the same warning symbol. The designation
of the safety instruction is shown beside the symbol. The safety instruc-
tions used are described below.

Configuration of a safety instruction

A safety instruction may have the following components:
– Warning symbol and designation of the safety instruction (signal
word): Danger, warning or caution.
– Source and cause of the danger
– Consequences for the user due to non-observance of the safety in-
struction
– Required measures to be taken by the user to avoid possible conse-
quences
– A measure may cause an intermediate result.
– At the end of all measures, a final result may be caused.

Personal health hazard

DANGER
A »danger« indicates an imminent risk to life and limb.
Non-observance of this safety instruction when the described risk oc-
curs causes death or serious injuries.
Example: Electric shock due to high electric voltage.

WARNING
A »warning« indicates a possible risk to life and limb.
Non-observance of this safety instruction when the described risk oc-
curs may cause death or serious injuries.
Example: Risk of severe crushing of the body caused by heavy loads.

CAUTION
A »caution« indicates a personal health hazard.
Non-observance of this safety instruction when the described risk oc-
curs may cause slight to moderate injuries.
Example: Risk of minor crushing of the limbs caused by small loads.

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Configuration of safety instructions

Risk of material damage

If there is no personal health hazard, but the CMM or components may
get damaged, this is pointed out by the following notice.

This symbol refers to possible damage to the CMM.

Non-observance of this safety instruction when the event occurs may
cause damage to the CMM or one of its components.
Example: Collision of the ram with a workpiece.

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1 CALYPSO dme (Option)

This chapter contains:

Introduction: CALYPSO DME interface (option) ............................................ 1-2
CALYPSO and the DME interface.................................................................. 1-3
Using the DME interface .............................................................................. 1-6

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Introduction: CALYPSO DME interface (option)

The DME interface license enables CALYPSO to control the CMM via a
DME server, thus allowing to use CALYPSO on CMMs that are not
equipped with a ZEISS control unit.
These operating instructions assume that you are familiar with the use of
CALYPSO. They only describe special CALYPSO DME functions which are
different from the usual procedure.
Please bear in mind that the DME interface does not support all CA-
LYPSO functions.

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CALYPSO and the DME interface

Function of the DME interface

CALYPSO is normally used to control ZEISS CMMs. You may, however,
also use CALYPSO for CMMs by other manufacturers if these machines
support the DME Interface. You will then use CALYPSO in the “DME”
mode.
In this case, CALYPSO is not directly connected to the CMM control, but
indirectly using a DME server.

CALYPSO

DME server CMM

CALYPSO sends commands to the DME interface and receives informa-

tion in return. The actual control of the CMM is performed by the DME
server.

NOTE
Due to the specification of the DME interface, a number of known CA-
LYPSO functions are not available for the DME option.

Measurement plans based on a CALYPSO version from V4.6 are suitable

for addressing the DME interface. For measurement plans created using
a version up to V4.4, you first have to establish compatibility.

Compatibility of measurement plans up to

V4.4
The DME interface requires that the styli are identified by their names.
Therefore, from CALYPSO 4.6, the name of each stylus is saved in the
measurement plan.

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– Measurement plans created by CALYPSO from version 4.6 are thus

suitable for exchanging data with the DME interface.
– Measurement plans created by CALYPSO up to and including version
4.4 are suitable for exchanging data with the DME interface to only
a limited extent.
In CALYPSO up to and including version 4.4, the styli of a stylus sys-
tem were identified by their number. The name of the stylus system
and the number of the stylus were stored in the measurement plan.
If you want to use older measurement plans up to and including version
4.4 for the DME Interface option, you will first have to establish compat-
ibility.

Establishing compatibility of measurement plans up to

V4.4
1 Open the measurement plan with CALYPSO 4.6 (CNC or PLANNER
option).
2 Make sure that the stylus configuration used for the measurement
plan is available in order to enable the program to find the names
corresponding to the numbers of the respective styli.
3 Save the measurement plan.
4 If the server supports Tool Collections (for CALYPSO: stylus systems):
In the server, create Tool Collections with the names of the stylus
systems and therein the styli with the corresponding names.
5 If the server does not support Tool Collections: Select the “Root” sty-
lus system for the entire measurement plan and assign unique names
to all styli.
The measurement plan will then run with DME without any further
changes.

Not available functions

The following CALYPSO functions and options are not available with the
DME interface:
– Control consoles
– Stylus changers
– Stylus qualification
– RDS with CAA
– VAST Navigator
– Duplex mode

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– Stylus Simulation and Stylus System Creator (option)

– Automation FACS (option)

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Using the DME interface

Operating sequence of the DME interface

When using CALYPSO with the DME interface, you can proceed in the
usual manner:
1 Define the system settings.
2 Create and edit the measurement plan.
3 Start the measurement plan.
4 Evaluate the results.
The particular aspects to consider are explained in other topics.

Settings for DME

Activating a license
To enable CALYPSO to address the DME interface, the following must
be defined in the system settings:
– Select Extras " Settings " Miscellaneous and activate the “Ca-
lypso DME” license on the Licenses notebook page.
Once the “Calypso DME” license has been activated, the licenses
“Calypso CNC”, “Calypso MAN”, “CMM-OS” and “Planner” are auto-
matically deactivated.
When starting CALYPSO at a later stage, you will not need to redo these
settings.

Connecting the CMM and homing the CMM

If you want to run the current measurement plan, home the CMM and
connect it with CALYPSO.
1 Select Extras " Settings " CMM or select the CMM tab in the
measurement plan area and click CMM Setting.
The DME Interface window will open instead of the CMM Config-
uration window.

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DME Interface

File View Connection Extras

Connect CMM: localhost

End

No connection to CMM

Cancel

Stop

Continue

Active stylus:

X: Y: Z:

Henceforth, you will use this dialog box to control the connection to
the CMM via the DME server.
2 In the Connect CMM input field, enter the following parameters:

localhost if the DME server runs on the

same computer
the name of the computer in the alternatively
network or its IP address

3 Click the Connect CMM button.

A connection is established. In the event of failure to establish a con-
nection, the stop light will turn red after some seconds.
During the starting phase, the system checks if the home position of
the CMM is valid. If this is not the case, the home run must be per-
formed.
As soon as the CMM is ready, the CMM Settings button turns
green again.

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Moreover, during the starting phase, a list containing all available styli is
requested from the server.

DME - Installing and qualifying a stylus system

In CALYPSO-DME, you cannot define stylus systems and styli. The styli
must be named and qualified on the server side.

NOTE
If the server supports “Tool Collections”, this means for CALYPSO that
you can use stylus systems and styli in the measurement plan. Other-
wise, you can only use one stylus system (“Root”) in CALYPSO and all
styli must be different.

CALYPSO does not receive information about the stylus systems and the
associated styli from the server. Styli are therefore treated differently in
CALYPSO-DME:
– The Manual stylus system change and Automatic stylus sys-
tem change commands are neither provided in the Resources
menu nor in the toolbar.
– Instead of the Probing system qualification window, the list of
styli provided by the server will be displayed.
– The same window is shown instead of the Stylus system manage-
ment:

Styli List
File
Active stylus:
Root.TactScanPrb1
Stylus system:
Root

TactScanPrb1
TactScanPrb2
TactScanPrb3

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Updating styli The list of styli provided by the server contains all currently available styli.
Once you have created new styli, you must update the available styli in
the Styli List dialog box in CALYPSO.
Qualifying styli In the menu of the table, you can activate the change and the Qualify
command. This is to instruct the server to re-qualify the current stylus.
The same method as the one employed for the previous qualification will
be used.
The path of each stylus shown under Stylus system, composed of the
names, will then be transferred to CALYPSO.

NOTE
Those styli that are not part of a group, are assigned to the “Root” sty-
lus system. This applies to all styli if no groups are used.

#1 TactScanPrb1
By clicking Stylus selection in the toolbar you can open the list of styli
#1 TactScanPrb1 associated with the current stylus system and have the desired stylus in-
#2 TactScanPrb2 serted.
You will be informed if the rotation of an RDS articulating head or a
movement to the stylus changer rack is required.

NOTE
CALYPSO cannot check whether a stylus has been qualified. Make sure
that all styli used have been qualified.

DME – Prerequisites for the rotary table

If you need the rotary table in your measurement plan, you will have to
activate it and have the rotary table axis qualified.
1 You activate the rotary table in the DME Interface window by se-
lecting File " Settings.
After closing and restarting the program, the icon for the rotary table
will appear in the toolbar and on the Measurement Plan tab in the
measurement plan area.
If you enable the Read RT axis entry under File " Settings, the server
will determine the rotary table axis. Therefore, the Read RT axis from
server function is automatically selected in the Rotary Table dialog
box.
If this setting is not enabled, the Load existing RT axis and Measure
RT axis options will be displayed in the Rotary Table window.

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DME – Temperature compensation

The compensation of the thermal expansion of the X, Y and Z scales and
the correction of the thermal plate bending apply to the CMM equip-
ment and thus to the DME server.
The following functions of the temperature compensation in CALYPSO
cannot be performed via the DME interface:
– Determination of the workpiece temperature by probing with a tem-
perature stylus
– Warning message if the difference between workpiece temperature
and qualification temperature of the current stylus exceeds a certain
value
If you want to use the temperature compensation function in your mea-
surement plan, you will have to activate it in CALYPSO.

Activating the temperature compensation

1 Click the Temperature Compensation button in the Prerequisites.
2 Activate Temperature Compensation.

Temperature Compensation

Temperature Compensation on/off

Temperature Corr.value <µ/m>

Part

20.0000 7.80 0.000000

Warning if workpiece temperature

over 25.0000 or under 15.0000

OK Reset

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Setting the measurement and transfer of the workpiece

temperature via the DME server
1 Select Extras " Settings " CMM or click the CMM Home Posi-
tion or Status button.
The DME Interface window will be opened instead of the CMM
Configuration window.
2 Select File " Settings.

Settings
File
Connect at Program Start
CMM Window always in Foreground
Activate Rotary Table
Read RT axis
Read Workpiece Temperature

CMM Measurement Range Extended...

X: Y: Z:
0.00 0.00 0.00
Direction of CMM Quill:
-Z

OK Cancel

3 Activate Read Workpiece Temperature.

4 If necessary, activate the display of a warning message in case the
temperature goes above or below an absolute value.
The temperature values are automatically loaded and updated by the
DME server.
If you deactivate Read Workpiece Temperature, the Temperature
Compensation window will appear when starting the CNC run in order
to allow you checking and, if necessary, modifying the values.

DME - Defining features

With CALYPSO-DME, you define the features in the usual manner.
In the following cases, the DME server will inform CALYPSO about
“events”:

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– when a probing action has been performed

– when an intermediate position has been programmed
– when the TERMINATE button has been pressed
– when the last probing point has been deleted
– when an error has occurred
In this way, you may also define features using the Automatic feature
recognition in CALYPSO DME.
Undefined features The following features cannot be integrated into the measurement plan
for CALYPSO DME:
– The HOLOS and GEAR PRO additional features. These features re-
quire direct connection to the CMM control unit.

Defining a measurement strategy

Special aspects of the measurement strategy definition:
– The “self-centering probing” strategy for discrete points is not imple-
mented in CALYPSO-DME.
– The “Automatic stylus search” function cannot be performed in CA-
LYPSO-DME.

Path generation
When measuring form lines or a circle segment with several lines, the
stylus automatically scans around the feature to ensure reaching from
the end point of one line to the starting point of the next one.
The following path generation methods are not available:
– Circle Macro
– Sphere Macro
– Define Sphere Position

DME – Defining characteristics

The following characteristics and related features are not available in
CALYPSO-DME:
– The Stylus system qualification utility
Stylus data cannot be changed by CALYPSO-DME.
– The gage correction qualification
The bend parameters of a stylus cannot be stored.

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Controlling a measurement via DME

DME Interface During the execution of a measurement plan, the DME Interface win-
dow replaces the known CALYPSO Stop Light window. This allows indi-
rect controlling of the CNC run via the DME server. The DME Interface
window is similar to the CALYPSO stop light window.

DME Interface

File View Connection Extras

Connect CMM: Simulation

End

No connection ready

Cancel

Stop

Continue

Active stylus:
TactScanPrb1 (R=2.00)

X: Y: Z:

The stop light indicates the current connection status.

Display of coordinates The coordinate display in the DME Interface window shows the nomi-
nal data sent by CALYPSO to the server for positioning or measuring.
You can also open a window for continuous displaying with View "
CMM Coordinates. The coordinates in the current base alignment are
specified in both views.

NOTE
According to the parameters defined in the settings, the continuous dis-
playing will permanently be updated. This may be useful in manual
mode, but leads to increased data traffic in the CNC run.

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Starting a measurement via the DME interface

Canceling the CNC run To cancel the CNC run, click the button with the red stop light.
The DME server cancels execution of all running and outstanding com-
mands.
Resetting error status Restarting a measurement plan will only be possible after clicking Con-
before continuing tinue to switch the stop light to green. This will reset the error status in
the DME server, thus enabling the latter to execute commands.
Automatic cancelation If the server sends an error message during the CNC run, the procedure
will automatically be canceled.
For analyzing an error, you can use the DME Interface window and
Extras " Log file to display the complete dialog between CALYPSO
and the server since the last connection. You can save the log file in any
directory using File " Save.

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C
Characteristics
Not for DME 1-12
Connecting the CMM
Via DME 1-6
Controlling a measurement
Via DME 1-13

D
DME interface
Basics 1-3
Connecting the CMM 1-6
Controlling a measurement 1-13
Features 1-11
Measurement plans up to 4.4 1-3
Not available characteristics 1-12
Not available functions 1-4
Preparing the rotary table 1-9
Stylus system 1-8
System settings 1-6
Temperature compensation 1-10
Using 1-6

F
Features
With DME 1-11

R
Rotary table
Preparing for DME 1-9

S
Stylus system
For DME 1-8

T
Temperature compensation
DME 1-10

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