Arm Settings

To access the SA Arm interface options, press the Edit Arm Settings button in the bottom left-hand corner of the interface. This takes you to the Options dialog

 

Button Functions

Arm buttons 1, 2, and 3 (if available) can be set to perform a series of functions:

 

Button Operations Summary

Button Setting Name

Short

Long

Active Meas - Short

Active Meas - Long

Record/Accept

Next

Accept Mode

Record

Accept

Delete Last/Cancel

Prior

Mouse Pad

Delete Last

Cancel

Delete Last/Mouse Toggle

Prior

Mouse Toggle

Delete Last

 

Record/Delete Last

Next

Prior

Record

Delete Last

The button functions can also be triggered even without the arm but- tons by using the number keys on the keyboard. Press 1,2, or 3 to trigger the function of the corresponding button on the arm. You can also use Ctr+1, Ctr+2,Ctr+3 to trigger the corresponding long hold function.

Note: Toolbar button operations are hard coded.

 

Units

Instrument interfaces have unit settings in addition to SA itself. Choose the active units (inches, meters, millimeters, centimeters, or feet) in this drop-down.

 

Sound Options

Clicking the Sound Options button will bring up the Sound Properties dialog.

Speech Prompting

Arm Sounds

 

Fit/Meas Options

The Fit/Meas Options button brings up a dialog where you can specify a series of options related to arm measurement and geometry fitting.

 

Data to SA


The Voxel Size control and Min Points per Voxel should be familiar from SA’s Voxel controls. The #Cloud Pts per Voxelization option controls how many points are processed in a batch before they are sent to SA. This means a larger number will slow the rate data appears in the graphics.

 

UDP Data Stream

The UDP Data Stream feature enables the instrument interface to broadcast real-time probe position and orientation over the User Datagram Protocol (UDP). This allows the interface to send this data over a network without requiring a specific data connection to be established beforehand. This means that other clients on the network can be set up to receive this data and, perhaps, do some thing useful with it.

For example, you might set up UDP data streaming to broadcast real- time 6D probe information to a custom client application that is lis- tening on the proper port for UDP data packets. This client application could take this 6D information and process it, performing a useful task (such as using the 6D information to control a motorized pan/tilt head camera mount).

To test the data being transmitted via UDP packets, use the SpatialAnalyzer UDP Monitor (available in the SA Install directory as SpatialAnalyzer UDPMonitor. Set it up with the appropriate port, then click the Start button to view the data as it arrives over the network port.


Graphics in SA

 

Probe

 

Material Thickness

 

Choose Language

This button is used to load or create a translation file for the arm interface.