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huangyhg

getting started
i have been reading the osts for a coule of weeks now. this seems to be a very friendly community.
we are getting ready to install c dmis nc on a makino a100e as a ilot roject. in this forum i am what you would call a monkey. i have 25 years of nc machining exerience. i have limited rogramming exerience but i am lanning to learn catia v5.
our goal is to do limited conformity on the machine. we also hoe to do statistical rocess control.
my first question: hexagon asked us to have a universal datum ball set u to use to calibrate the m700 robe. i have been using a robe ring that was rovided by renishaw when we bought the robe. my renishaw guru tells me that the ring will work for what we are doing (5th axis rotary table stacked on b axis. on the arts that i will be running all of my checks will be done on one lane, erendicular to chord line. do i need the datum ball?
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