The Inspection Bar offers an alternative perspective on the SA Treebar, offering a focused ordered list of items with Trapping capabilities intended for inspection. This list can be rearranged and edited as needed to provide a list of features to inspect. Trappable features include:
Geometry Relationships or GR Features
Standard Relationships
GD&T Datums
GD&T Feature Checks
Trapping simply means direct data association. When you are actively trapping to a particular feature it will be marked as active .This indicates that each measurement taken is automatically associated with that active feature.
The inspection bar button can be set to open either the Stand along Inspection bar or the traditional Inspection tab of the SA toolkit based upon the settings within the Inspection Options.
Auto Start Inspection Bar on Trapping Measurements. With this option enabled the selected inspection bar will open automatically when trapping begins.
Show Trapping Vectors. Enabling this option will automatically display fit vectors for the active trapping item.
When trapping begin, the default inspection bar embedded in the tree will be displayed. The stand alone inspection bar provides a larger list area and a cleaner look and was added to work with the ribbon menu and its built in tools. The Inspection toolkit tab provides more controls for thing such as Instrument Alignment, Feature properties and Sweep functions.
The navigation controls provide a means to navigate through a list of features:
The Next button advances trapping. Ctr+Right click provides a means to move a feature down in the measurement task list. A simple Right click will open the Mult-Feature Cloud Association option and access to Simultaneous Feature Trapping.
The Stop button halts feature trapping.
The Previous button moves trapping up to the prior feature in the list. Ctr+Right click provides a means to move a feature up a slot in the measurement task list.
In addition to directly trapping measurements taken from and instrument relationships provide the ability to trap select points already in the job file simply by clicking on those points. To start Trap Selection right-click on the relationship in either the tree or the inspection tab and select Trap Selections.