Trapping Measurements from a Live Instrument

Measurements can be captured or “Trapped” directly from a live instrument while measuring without either building or utilizing the guided inspection process. For an advanced user, directly measuring points on a part and having those measurements automatically associated to a particular feature can be the fast way to conduct an analysis. Trapping can be started for any datum or feature check in either of two ways:

Trapping through the Instrument

  1. Connect to your instrument.

  2. Right-click on the particular Datum or Feature Check you wish to trap.

  3. When finished measuring, right-click on the feature a second time and select Stop Trapping Measurements.

Trapping through the Inspection Tab

  1. Connect to your instrument.

  2. Double-click on the particular Datum or Feature Check you wish to trap measurements to in the Inspection tab.

  3. When finished measuring, press the stop button (INSERT ICON) or press the progress button (INSERT ICON) to move to the next or previous item in the Inspection tab list.

Either of these operations will begin trapping to the feature. If you have more than one instrument you will be prompted to choose which instrument you wish to trap measurements from. While trap- ping is active the feature will become highlighted in both the Inspection tab and in the tree as well as being displayed with the point count in the Heads Up Display and will remain highlighted until trapping is stopped.