Inspection program editing environment providing user defined collision avoidance volumes

US10254113B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignees

• Mitutoyo Corporation · JP
• Mitutoyo Europe GmbH · DE

Inventors

• Dahai Yu · Redmond, US
• Eric Yeh-Wei Tseo · Kirkland, US
• Bart De Vlieghere · Waibstadt, DE
• Michael Peter · Lage, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: May 3, 2016
• Grant date: Apr 9, 2019
• Expiry date: Mar 15, 2037

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y02P90/02
• WIPO field: Control
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

A system is provided for programming workpiece feature inspection operations for a coordinate measuring machine. The system includes a computer aided design (CAD) file processing portion, an inspection motion path generation portion and a user interface. The user interface includes a workpiece inspection program simulation portion and auxiliary collision avoidance volume creation elements. The workpiece inspection program simulation portion displays a 3D view and the auxiliary collision avoidance volume creation elements are operable to create or define auxiliary collision avoidance volumes that are displayed in the 3D view. In various implementations, rather than requiring a user to model a physical object (e.g., as part of a workpiece or CMM) in a CAD file, the user may instead create and position an auxiliary collision avoidance volume at a location where the physical object is expected to be, so as to prevent collisions that could occur with the physical object.