Lesson 5: Measuring Additional Features

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With our part aligned, we can now identify further features to be inspected.

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We can create more geometric features like we did earlier, using the Wireframe Checker to pick features from the CAD model.

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We will also look at the form inspection by using the Surface Inspection feature.

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We'll start by measuring the five holes on the other side of the part.

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We can use the same technique we used to measure the alignment geometry by using the Wireframe Checker to pick holes one at a time.

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Again, choosing to create probe circles and pressing "Accept" to add them to the new geometric group in the Sequence Tree.

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Feel free here to pause the video and add any additional features you may want to inspect to this group.

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Once you've added all the holes you want, we can inspect these features by pressing "Play All" in the Measure tab of the ribbon.

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Go ahead and pause the video here while you take these measurement points, allowing PowerInspect to walk through the inspection process.

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Remember to ensure that you're measuring the correct feature at each stage, which should be indicated by dark blue boundary.

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Next, let's take a look at the Surface Inspection.

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Press the "Green Arrow" to move back into the main section of the Sequence Tree.

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And from the Form tab, select "On-the-Fly Surface Group".

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Once again, we are presented with a dialog box in which we can set the various parameters of our new group.

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Rename the group Top Form and leave the rest of the values as defaults.

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The new group will automatically play and ask you to start measuring points.

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A minimum of six surface points is required.

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Once you're happy, press the "Green Tick" to apply.

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At this stage, we've finished inspecting our part and we're ready to move on to the final stage of our workflow and generate the report.