Clear Data

A selection of options are available to clear data from inspection features either in preparing a template file or for remeasuring.

Basic Clear and Delete Options

The corresponding delete commands do the same.

 

Inspection Guide Points

Clear Inspection Guided Data

Within the Trapping Controls for a GR-Feature or other relationships is an option to set guide points. These guide points can be used to indicate where on a part to measure. This clear option can now be used to clear out the pre-set guide points for a selection of features at one time.

 

Convert Measured Points to Guided

Guide points can be very helpful for inspection and they can also be used for auto measure operations. The Convert Measured Points to Guided option offers the ability to directly convert a measured set of features into a template that is pre-configured with guide points. The same operation is available on R-click Relationships branch menu.

The operation starts from a user prompt to select relationships to apply the changes. Right-Click on a particular Relationships branch in the tree to filter to a particular collection, otherwise, it filters the entire SA job (all collections).

The applicable types of relationships include:

The operation is not applicable if a feature doesn't have measured points assigned. It is expected that all measured points belong to a single point group. If feature has a single point group association or all associated points make a single point group, then the application will automatically convert the associated point group to the guided points group. However, if feature has mixed points from different groups or multiple groups association, then the user will be prompted to select the desired point group to use as the guide points group.

 

Sweep & Move

Sweep & Move was added to allow collection management and easier repeat measurement of common features in separate collections. This function only works with relationships not GD&T features. When you press the Sweep & Move Icon you will see the following dialog:

By utilizing the Sweep & Move feature, a user may choose to either copy or move relationships from the active collection to a destination collection. By selecting COPY, a duplicate set of the relationships will be built in the new collection, constructed point associations will be maintained while clearing measured points from these new relationships. By choosing MOVE, relationships will be moved into a destination collection, leaving the measured points and constructed geometry only in the original collection.

 

Relationship Status

The last two items under the Clear Data button are almost exclusively for debugging or troubleshooting.