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FIGURE 2.20 A touch trigger probe configuration.<br />

the specimen. The electro-mechanical touch trigger probe, a tectile sensor, is of better accuracy and the<br />

most widely used sensor system for the CMM in the industry today. An ex<strong>amp</strong>le of a touch trigger<br />

probe system suitable for automatic part inspection is shown in Figure 2.20. Such a probe system is<br />

flexible because it includes a motorized probe head for aligning the probe in various orientations and<br />

is capable of automatic probe change. The touch trigger probe can be attached directly or indirectly via<br />

a probe extension to the motorized probe head. The touch trigger probe gives a trigger signal from the<br />

deflection of the stylus attached to it when the ruby tip at the end of the stylus is in contact with the<br />

surface to be measured. The stylus and ruby can be of different dimensions, depending on the applications.<br />

In using a touch-trigger type of probing system for the CMM, the geometric data of the object<br />

to be inspected is of importance because<br />

• The geometry of the probe system will affect the accessibility of the measurement region on the<br />

workpiece. Collision with the workpiece and the working volume of the CMM have to be considered<br />

when selecting a probe configuration for measurement.<br />

• The data points to be s<strong>amp</strong>led by the CMM must have both spatial coordinate values as well as<br />

the surface normals. The surface normals are used for radius compensation due to the spherical<br />

contact tip.<br />

The digitized points obtained from measurement on the CMM have to undergo further processing<br />

on the host computer depending on applications. The primary application of CMM is for evaluating the<br />

geometric and dimensional tolerance (GD&T) specifications for a part. GD&T is used to define the<br />

acceptable variation of a part geometry and the essential functional relationship between geometric<br />

elements on the part. The chief motivation of GD&T is to ensure that usable sizes and locations are<br />

created for assembly of parts; hence ensuring interchangeability of parts even before they are made. Size<br />

and location are the main tolerance specifications for assembly of parts; in order to allow for greater<br />

amount of size and location tolerances, surface quality control tolerances such as profile, form, orientation,<br />

and runouts are also defined. GD&T specifications have to conform to internationally accepted<br />

standards such as ANSI Y14.5M 41 for meaningful applications. A general data structure based on the<br />

ANSI Y14.5M standard has been defined for each tolerance specification as shown in Tables 2.2 and 2.3.<br />

© 2001 by CRC Press LLC

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