3 A small red dot will appear in the bottom of the Measure Prompt screen. This red dot is the activation button for the Auto Point Entry timer. Press the red dot to enable the timer. 4 Move the stage to position the feature under the probe. As the stage is moved, the dots will turn green indicating that the timer is armed. 5 When the stage stops moving, the dots will turn yellow and begin to disappear to the left. Shortly before the point is probed the dots will turn red. A point will automatically be probed at the current crosshair position. When the point is entered, the dots will become black. When the stage is moved again, the timer will restart and green dots will be shown again. NOTE The stage can be moved to reposition the point to be probed while the timer is counting down and the dots are either green or yellow. When the dots are red, moving the stage will not restart the timer. If you accidentally enter an incorrect point position, simply press the Undo button in the system toolbar to remove the point.
Activation red dot
Stage moving, timer armed
Stage stopped
Point entered
Probe behavior in program playback Part programs are recorded as measurements are performed. During program playback, the part program remembers the approximate probe position of each edge that was recorded as part of a feature measurement. As program playback proceeds, the system simply moves to the next recorded position to find an edge. Thus, program playback can be viewed as a collection of stage positions and their associated candidate points. The optical edge probe used for the recorded measurement is inconsequential to the manner in which points are collected during playback. Once part registration has been established, the system advances to the next programmed stage position with a screen press or Enter button press in manual systems, and occurs automatically in CNC systems. All valid candidate points will be collected automatically until the feature measurements are complete.
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