Adept AdeptSight User Guide - Manual (Page 529)

Location Properties for the Region of Interest
Guideline Offset
The Guideline Offset is the offset from the tool Y-axis. The Guideline marker can be displaced
along the X-axis. This marker acts as both a visual guide for positioning the tool and as a con-
straint for the tool Search Mode.
Properties
Polarity Mode
Polarity Mode sets the mode that will apply to the search for entities. Polarity
identifies the change in grey-level values along the tool X axis, in the positive
direction.
The available modes are
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Dark To Light: The Point Finder searches only for point instances occur-
ring at a dark to light transition in grey-level values.
l
Light To Dark: The Point Finder searches only for point instances occur-
ring at a light to dark transition in grey-level values.
l
Either: The Point Finder searches only for point instances occurring
either at a light to dark or dark to light transition in grey-level values.
This mode will increase processing time.
l Don’t Care: The Point Finder searches only for point instances occurring
at any transition in grey-level values including reversals in contrast, for
example, on an unevenly colored background.
Guideline Offset
AdeptSight User's Guide, Version 3.2.x, Updated: 8/23/2012
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