M3 User Manual

Video Inspection Software User’s Guide

Part Leveling .......................................................................................................................................................... 99 Skew alignment .................................................................................................................................................... 100 Datum Creation .................................................................................................................................................... 100 Probing a Part Datum Point ............................................................................................................................ 101 Constructing a Part Datum Point from one or more Parent Features.................................................................. 101 Creating a Datum by Manually Zeroing the X and Y Coefficients of a Feature ................................................... 101 Rotating and Offsetting a Reference Frame ............................................................................................................ 102 Rotating the Measurement Reference Frame...................................................................................................... 102 Offsetting the Skew Alignment ............................................................................................................................. 102 Managing Multiple Reference Frames..................................................................................................................... 103 Unsaved Reference Frames ................................................................................................................................ 104 Saving Reference Frames ................................................................................................................................... 104 Locking and Unlocking Features from their Reference Frames .......................................................................... 104 Registration Datum .............................................................................................................................................. 105 Saving and loading reference frames to and from a file ...................................................................................... 105 Section 8: Tolerancing................................................................................................................................................. 107 Supported Tolerances ............................................................................................................................................. 107 Applying Tolerances to a Single Feature................................................................................................................. 108 Keypad Entry of Nominal Values ......................................................................................................................... 109 Select Feature and go to the Nominal Feature Detail screen ......................................................................... 109 Enter Nominal Values using the Keypad ......................................................................................................... 109 Go to the Tolerance Screen, Select and Enter Tolerance ................................................................................... 109 Go to the Deviation Screen to Observe Results .................................................................................................. 110 Entering Nominal Values using Auto-Round ....................................................................................................... 110 Entering Nominal and Tolerance Values using Place Tolerancing...................................................................... 111 Importing Nominal Values from a DXF Drawing File ........................................................................................... 113 Applying Tolerances to a Group of Features ........................................................................................................... 115 Quick Tolerance Functions ...................................................................................................................................... 116 Configuring Preset Tolerance Values .................................................................................................................. 116 Accessing the Quick Tolerance Functions ........................................................................................................... 117 Interactive Mode ............................................................................................................................................ 117 Program Edit Mode ......................................................................................................................................... 117 Applying Quick Tolerances .................................................................................................................................. 118 Applying Nominal Values and Tolerances to Individual Coefficients.............................................................. 118 Applying Nominal Values and Tolerances to Multiple Feature Coefficients................................................... 119 Section 9: Reporting Data and the Results Screen..................................................................................................... 121 Report Template Formats ........................................................................................................................................ 121

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