Auto Measure Points

Auto Measure Points provides an automated means to tell a motorized instrument to measure a set of targets on its own. This can be done once or repeatedly. To perform the Auto Measure, select Auto Measure Points. Select the group of points to measure and the Auto Measure dialog in will appear.

The Auto Measure Dialog is organized into 4 sections as follows:

Orient

An instrument must be aligned to the reference points in order to perform an automatic measurement, which is based upon a point at, find, and measure process. It will be told to point at the nominal points in order to find the actual points to measure. Unless already aligned, it can be helpful to mark at least 3 of the points as Anchor Points. This is done by right-clicking on the row of the point of interest and changing the Status on that point in the Measurement section to define it as an anchor point. The Measure Anchor Pts. and Locate Instrument buttons can then be used.

Measure

The measure process is initiated and configured from the measurement section of the dialog.

Options

A selection of options are available for the auto measure process. These options can be defined as default by using the Right-click option on the Apply button. These include:

The measurement section of the dialog displays the current status of the last pass through the nominal points. This includes both the nominal, actual, and delta statics in a tabular form just as it will appear in an event or ascii export.

The active point (row) is highlighted and the highlighted point will also be the target the instrument measures if a single point measurement is taken. Points can also be marked as anchor points and Ignore such that they are not measured in subsequent passes.