Feature Controls and Automation

Trapping Controls

GR-Features and other Relationships offer quite a bit of automation control during the inspection process without any need for MP integration. This automation is controlled per feature through the features Trapping Controls which are accessed either directly through a features right-click menu or its Properties.

The primary benefit in pre-configuring features using Trapping Controls is to allow automated measurements to be built into an inspection process. These include operations such as:

 

Trapping Controls Offer the Following Opations:

Exclude Feature from Inspection

 

Instrument Info

Taking Measurements

Measurement is broken down into 3 separate categories

 

Trap Points or Vectors Selection Options:

 

 

Automated Measurement

 

Tactile Manual Measurements

 

Measure Closest Point

 

Measure Point List Sequentially

 

Apply to Selected

The Apply to Selected section of the GR-Feature or Relationship Properties includes an option to apply the basic Trapping Control settings. Couple of notes on this:

 

Additional Controls

Information on Callouts, Linked MPs can be found Here.

And on the Configure Instrument options can be found Here.