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Ryan’s Calypso Tricks II

Rotate your Clearance Planes to help Navigation

Sometimes your Base Alignment is not convenient for easy navigation around your part or into features of your part.

• Create a secondary alignment with rotations to orient the axes the most beneficial directions.

• Re-Draw your Clearance Planes with the secondary alignment selected.

*Inconvenient clearance planes parallel with *Optimized clearance planes relative to a Base Alignment. Rotated Secondary Alignment.



Turn off the Default Printout

Many times, the Calypso Default Printout is bothersome to some Calypso users. Go to RESOURCES>FORMAT CUSTOM PRINTOUT (DEFINE PRINTOUT in v 4.2). Check DEFAULT PRINTOUT to BACKGROUND.

*The Infamous Default Printout *Check this Checkbox to make the Default

Printout disappear

Reset the Printout

When you rename a characteristic and you generate a new report without a CMM inspection run, Calypso warns that the old characteristic name is no longer in the program with a big red icon on the report. To fix this, go to RESOURCES>FORMAT CUSTOM PRINTOUT (DEFINE PRINTOUT in v 4.2). Check RESET PRINTOUT. Then, run the program without clearing the existing results.

*Warning Icon in Calypso Report after *Check this checkbox to reset the report renaming a characteristic. with no warning icons.



Move the CMM in Part Coordinates

Driving the CMM “square” to your part’s alignment system (or any other measured plane for that matter) is very handy, especially with measuring bores on an angled face. To do this, from the stoplight, choose VIEW>MOVE IN PART ALIGNMENT. In the new dropdown that appears in the Stoplight window, choose your alignment or a plane to drive in.

Use “Hotkeys” to Minimize Clicking

Below is a listing of Hotkeys that are useful in Calypso. Note that for these keys below, you must have a Feature or Characteristic selected, whichever is appropriate.

F2 - Rename CTRL+C - Copy CTRL+V - Paste CTRL+X - Cut DELETE - Cut RIGHT ARROW – Open UP ARROW – Move up in list DOWN ARROW – Move up in list ENTER – OK out of a window ESC – Reset and close window ATL+RIGHT ARROW – Open Evaluation CTRL+RIGHT ARROW – Open Strategy CTRL+S – Save



Imbed a custom picture on the Run Screen

Save a bitmap of your part (or other image you want to display on the Run Screen) in your inspection folder. Your inspection folder is in …calypso\home\om\workarea\inspections\. The bitmap image must be named icon.bmp. This will replace the old Prismo CMM picture on the run screen with your custom image. Note that the image must be relatively square, as Calypso will size your bitmap to fit the corner of the Run Screen.

*Calypso Run Screen with Default Picture *Run Screen with Custom Picture

Keep icon image with your program for Autorun

Save a bitmap of your part (or other image you want to display in Autorun for your program icon) in your inspection folder. This bitmap must be named inspict.bmp. When you create a program button in Autorun, the image stored as “inspict.bmp” will automatically appear on your program button. This prevents you from having to load the icon image in Autorun, and will conveniently keep the Autorun image with your program, since it is in the inspection folder.

• The button on the left has the image that automatically appears in Autorun for a program.

• The button on the right is the image that automatically appears in Autorun for a program where an “inspict.bmp” image is stored in the inspection folder of the program.



Use a custom graphic for Autorun picture

The big Zeiss logo that appears in Autorun can be changed to whatever custom image you desire. Save a bitmap named autorunlogo.bmp with the custom image you want in Autorun in the …calypso\home\om\config folder.

• Notice the Autorun graphic has been changed from the “Big Zeiss” to a custom logo.

• You can include operator instruction in the use of Autorun, your company logo, a picture of the quality engineers, or whatever you want.

• A good size for the image is 380 by 380 pixels. Note that Calypso does not adjust the size, so if the image is too big, you will not be able to see it all.



Leave the Window Open

You can save many clicks by leaving the feature window, characteristic window, or strategy window open as you click to other icons in the feature or characteristic list as you make edits to your program. You can also leave an autopath or clearance data window open and click to different autopath or clearance data items in your strategy window to automatically open the newly selected item. Note that often times you will have to move windows to get access to the list you want to click to choose new items.

Use the “Last Input” Tolerance

If you have repetitive tolerances to enter for many characteristics, choose “LAST INPUT” in the “TOLERANCE CLASS” dropdown. The last entered tolerance will be applied to any new characteristics created, saving you the need to type the same tolerance over and over.

• Move the open window off to the side so you can click a new icon in the feature list.

• When a new icon is single-clicked, the open window changes to show the data for the newly clicked icon.



Create your own Tolerance Tables

Calypso provides you the ability to create your own tolerance table, accessible in the “TOLERANCE CLASS” dropdown. The tolerance tables are stored in the …calypso\opt\om\data\toldat\ directory. If you do not use all of the existing tolerance tables that come loaded with Calypso, the unwanted tolerance tables can be moved into the “misc” directory under the “toldat” directory. Calypso will not display the tolerance tables that are in the “misc” directory, therefore cleaning up the options in the “TOLERANCE CLASS” dropdown. You can always move them back if you ever need them. Note that all files in the “toldat” directory can be moved into the “misc” directory EXCEPT the “unitol.tol” file. Your custom tolerance table needs to be in a “.xml” format as outlined in the Calypso User Guide. You can create your own “.xml” tolerance files easily using the “TolTableMaker.xls” Excel Spreadheet from http://www.ellisontechnologies.com/parts-service/training/zeiss-downloads. Once you make your Tolerance Table “.xml” file, re-start Calypso and you will see your Tolerance Table available for use in the “TOLERANCE CLASS” dropdown.

The TolTableMaker.xls Excel Spreadsheet.

Calypso with the new Custom Tolerance Tables available for use.

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