Contents
viii Measurements Reference Guide
Mounting the optics 11
Aligning the optics 13
Aligning the Laser Beam to the Machine’s Travel
Path 8-14
Checking the Alignment for Beam Strength 8-14
Making Spindle Parallelism Measurements 8-15
Making the first set of measurements 15
Making the second set of measurements 19
Making the third set of measurements 19
Making the fourth set of measurements 20
Calculating the total out-of-parallelism value 20
Making Coplanar Parallelism Measurements 8-20
Making the first axis measurement 21
Making the second axis measurement 22
9 Flatness Measurements
Introduction 9-2
Setting Up for the Measurement 9-4
Creating the measurement grid 5
Planning your measurement grid 6
Determining grid border requirements 6
Choosing a foot spacer 7
Drawing the perimeter lines of the measurement
grid 10
Drawing the internal measurement lines 12
Assembling and Mounting the Optics 9-13
Assembling the optics 13
Mounting the optics 17
Positioning the Laser Head 9-20
Aligning the Optics 9-22
Aligning the optics if you are not using flatness
mirrors 23
Aligning the optics if you are using flatness mirrors 24