The ATS600 is a unique tracker in that it can take reflectorless surface measurements and scan a sphere. It can use a preset spherical target definition to automatically scan tooling balls for example. To support this unique function, tooling definitions have been added:
Scan Target: Custom Sphere.
Is used to scan a tooling ball of a given diameter and returns the sphere center point. These target definitions are defined within Tracker Pilot and will then be available for use within SA.
If you intend to scan spheres of several different sizes, different targets should be built within tracker pilot for each size. The size definition is use to control how the sphere is measured, and the size of the spiral search. The actual sphere will be extracted if a valid scan is obtained, so the exact size is not as important but more consistent detection will be obtained when a target of the approximate size is used.