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Cardinal probe compensation, Polar probe compensation, Auto enter – HEIDENHAIN IK 5293 User Manual

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Chapter 3 Using Probes

Cardinal probe compensation

Click the cardinal probe compensation button to toggle on/off probe cardinal
compensation. Use cardinal probe compensation for general measuring of fea-
tures to apply compensation for the probe tip radius in the probe direction.

Polar probe compensation

Click the polar probe compensation button to toggle on/off polar probe com-
pensation. Use polar probe compensation for probing point features in polar
coordinate mode.

Auto enter

Click the auto enter icon to toggle on/off auto enter. Use auto enter to auto-
matically enter a point from a touch probe upon contact.

Probe library

Click the probe library button to access the probe library window.