Documentation for the inspection data file format? (Want to support Blum probing inspection)

[edautodesk69XS4]

Hi, I have a Blum probe and most of the posts are written with Renishaw in mind. I want to add inspection reports to my post (which already has this at least partly implemented for Renishaw). However, the post manual and documentation just say something like "data format varies with the control"... 

So assuming I'm on the back foot here and fastest way to get something implemented is to output the same format as some other probing system outputs, can anyone help with examples of the inspection format for Renishaw, eg perhaps start with an example doing something simple such as probing the WCS location of a square/rectangular block?

Is there any documentation on other input formats that Fusion might support? I'm likely starting from scratch here, but I will also be limited to output from a Fanuc style DPRNT output, so can't get too fancy. Basically if there is a simple format that Fusion supports I would target that over trying to (re)implement the Renishaw output format?

Things which aren't clear are how fusion will tie the measurement points back to the probing cycles? eg Renishaw seems to support component counters and the like, yet I can't see how that could be understood by Fusion's input? Is it the case that fusion is expecting to get N points back and just reads every point in the inspection file in order and expects them to line up?

Thanks for any pointers?

[serge.quiblier]

Hi @edautodesk69XS4 

Let's start by looking at the output of a geometry probing result file.

And then explain which part come from.

START
RESULTSFILE Rectangular-boss-RESULTS
DOCUMENTID c6496c0c-f3d7-447a-a6cb-a460d616b174
MODELVERSION d1c75c0a-2991-4fcb-b4c5-c5f2ac14dbd6
TIMESTAMP 230124 121057


TOOLPATHID 141
TOOLPATH Rectangular boss
G331 N1 A0. B0. C0. X10. Y10. Z40.
G330 N1 A0. B0. C0. X0 Y0 Z0 I0 R0
CYCLEDEPTH  -2.5
-------------------------------------------------------------------
   COMPONENT NO 1                    FEATURE NO 1
-------------------------------------------------------------------
SIZE D50.   ACTUAL 50.0548   DEV 0.0548
POSN X335.   ACTUAL 334.9288   DEV -0.0712
POSN Y240.   ACTUAL NaN   DEV NaN
-------------------------------------------------------------------
   COMPONENT NO 1                    FEATURE NO 2
-------------------------------------------------------------------
SIZE D80.   ACTUAL 80.0429   DEV 0.0429
POSN X335.   ACTUAL NaN   DEV NaN
POSN Y240.   ACTUAL 240.0566   DEV 0.0566
END

Some of the output is defined by the posted program.

For example from line 1 to line 12, this is generated by code outputted by the post.

We can find the keywords START, RESULTSFILE.... in the code.

But what is generated for lines 13 to 18, and repeated in 19 to 24, is not generated by our program.

This is the Renishaw marco for this controller, that choose the output layout.

That result is coming from an Haas, or Fanuc machine.

But a Siemens, or Mazak output can be different.

That's the part we do not control.

Regards.

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[edautodesk69XS4]

Hi, thanks for that. It's helpful.

Do you happen to know what parts of this are parsed by Fusion? Does it use the "DEV: ..." deviation values for example?  Is it important to match the number of spaces?

I wonder if you could provide a couple of other examples please, ideally something with a Z probe in it as well please. Bonus marks if I could see an angle measurement as well please. Extra credit if you would share the file I could import these results into and test for correctness?

Much appreciated!

[Richard.stubley]

Hi @edautodesk69XS4,


For importing from the Macros on the machine most of the information is required. Without delving into the exact line's there isn't much that can be omitted as the parser is expecting to see it, for example you still need the ------- lines as we see this as a separator. 

Do you know of the post processor called "Results file generator" ?
It's a free post on the library that will make you a results file you can import. This will give you most of the formatting you need and you can then use it on your own parts. 

[edautodesk69XS4]

Hi, that's a super helpful answer! Thanks.

Let me have a play with that and see where I can get to!