Document Outline

• Contents.pdf
  • Chapter 1:
  • System Overview
    • Introduction
      • Windows
        • DRO
        • Templates
        • Results
        • Part View
        • Live Video
      • Menus
      • Toolbars
      • Statusbar
    • Windows
      • DRO window
      • Part View window
        • Selecting features
        • Adding feature data
      • Live Video window
      • Results window
      • Template Windows
        • Stacking and separating templates
        • Adding and deleting template content
        • Features template
        • Program template
        • Report template
        • Tolerance templates
    • Menus
      • File menu
        • Edit menu
        • View menu
        • Measure menu
        • Datum menu
        • Probe menu
        • Tools menu
        • Windows menu
      • On-screen menus
        • Template window menus
        • Template edit menus
        • Program edit menus
        • Results window menus
        • Part View window menus
      • Toolbar menus
      • Toolbars
      • Changing toolbar shape
      • Docking and undocking toolbars
      • Customizing and creating toolbars
      • Statusbar
    • Workspaces
      • Creating custom workspaces
      • Saving custom workspaces
      • Opening custom workspaces
      • Demonstration steps
      • Organizing the workspace
      • Selecting templates
      • Teaching the video probe
      • Turning program recording ON
      • Measuring part skew and datum
        • Skew
        • Datum
      • Measuring features
      • Applying feature tolerances
      • Adding data to the Runs template
      • Exporting data
      • Printing reports
      • Turning program recording OFF
      • Saving the part
      • Running the program
      • Preparing to use video probes
      • System and part condition
      • Selecting video magnification
      • Adjusting light control
      • Associating lighting with magnifications
      • Enabling and disabling light associations
      • Using video probes
      • Selecting a probe type
      • Changing probe position
      • Changing probe orientation
      • Changing probe size
      • Changing scan direction
      • Changing edge detection order
      • Enabling and disabling high accuracy scanning
      • Firing video probes
        • Dry firing probes
        • Continuous probe firing
      • Loading a video chart
      • Video probe descriptions
      • Crosshair probe
      • Simple probe
      • Buffer Probe
      • Average probe
      • Nearest probe
      • Farthest probe
      • Height probe
      • Width Probe
      • Circle Probe
        • Circles
        • Arcs
      • Blob Probe
      • Worm probe
      • New probe
      • Pattern Finder probe
      • Adding magnifications with associated zooms
        • Adding magnifications to the Probe toolbar
        • Adding the highest magnification to the probe library
        • Adding other magnifications and associating Zoom positions
        • Deleting magnifications
      • Configuring the highest magnification
      • Configuring the lower magnifications
      • Calibrating auto focus
      • Calibrating video edge recognition (Teach)
        • Advanced Edge Teach
      • Calibrating pixel resolution
      • Calibrating offset
      • Compensating for camera skew
      • Configuring video probe data collection parameters
      • Measurement activities
      • The measurement workspace
      • The measurement process
      • Preparing to use video probes
      • Establishing the measurement reference
        • Leveling the part (optional)
        • Creating a skew alignment
        • Creating a datum zero point
          • Probing a datum zero point
          • Constructing a datum zero point
      • Probing and measuring features
        • Measure Magic
        • Probing features
        • Probing specific feature types
          • Points
          • Lines
          • Arcs
          • Circles
          • Slots
          • Distances
          • Angles
          • Blobs
      • Profile measurements
      • Constructing features
      • Point constructions
      • Line constructions
      • Distance constructions
      • Circle constructions
      • Arc constructions
      • Creating features
        • Creating a point
        • Creating a line
        • Creating a distance
        • Creating a circle
        • Creating an arc
    • Applying tolerances to features
      • Tolerance screens
      • Tolerance menu
      • Tolerance toolbar
      • Display of tolerance results
      • Naming and saving tolerances
      • Deleting Named Tolerances
    • Tolerance types
      • Bidirectional
        • True position
        • MMC/LMC (Material condition)
        • Runout
        • Circularity
        • Straightness
        • Concentricity
        • Profile
        • Parallelism
        • Perpendicularity
        • Angularity
        • Angle
        • Width
    • Template descriptions
      • Features template
      • Program template
      • Runs template
        • Runs charts
      • Report template
      • Tolerance templates
    • Opening templates
    • Generating new default templates
    • Editing templates
      • Adding and deleting data
        • Adding data
          • Adding multiple data fields as a single new column
          • Adding multiple data fields as multiple new columns
          • Appending data fields to an existing column
        • Deleting data
          • Deleting rows
          • Deleting columns
      • Sorting data within a column
      • Aligning column titles and data
      • Changing the order of columns
      • Displaying horizontal and vertical grid lines
    • Headers and footers
      • Showing headers and footers
      • Editing headers and footers
        • Adding text
        • Editing text
        • Formatting text
        • Including automatic text entry
        • Prompting the user for alphanumeric information
        • Deleting text
        • Enabling text to speech output
        • Adding graphics from files
        • Drawing graphics
    • Printing reports
    • Exporting data
    • DDE Output
      • Output parameters
        • Connection
        • Data
        • General guidelines
      • Introduction
      • Creating Programs
      • Creating the new part
      • Starting program recording
      • Performing a skew and datum
      • Choosing a measurement programming method
      • Adding tolerances
      • Reporting results
      • Optimizing program steps
      • Adding special steps to a program
      • Finalizing feature properties
      • Finalizing program properties
      • Stopping program recording
      • Saving the part
      • Editing Programs
      • Part fixturing
      • Program runtime environment
      • Palletizing multiple parts
      • Editing initial program settings
        • Probe position indicator
        • Template state
        • Light controls
        • Optical magnification
        • Probe selection
        • High accuracy mode
        • Focus lock
        • Units of measure
      • Editing feature properties
        • Hiding features
        • Displaying phantom features
        • Displaying guide features
        • Showing a note with a feature
        • Showing the feature name
        • Editing feature point filtration
          • Specifying a filtration error limit
          • Specifying a filtration standard deviation range
      • Adding special and CNC program steps
        • Comment
        • Delay
        • Play sound
        • Program image
        • User message
        • Enabling or disabling run time graphic displays
        • Enabling or disabling full CNC mode
        • Enabling or disabling power assist mode
        • Enabling or disabling focus lock
        • Setting output lines
      • Selecting program steps
        • Selecting individual steps
        • Selecting groups of steps
        • Clearing step selections
      • Editing individual steps
        • Changing the target position for probing
        • Changing parents of construction features
        • Requiring user interaction to complete a measurement
      • Optimizing program steps
      • Cutting, copying, pasting and deleting program steps
        • Cutting steps
          • Copying steps
          • Pasting steps
          • Deleting steps
      • Inserting new program steps
      • Debugging programs
      • TTL encoders
      • Analog encoders
      • Joystick setup and limiting maximum axis velocity
        • Axis velocity
          • Curvature joystick parameter
          • Axis displacement
      • Counter setup
      • Limit Switch setup
      • Calibrating analog encoders
      • QC5200 encoder setup
      • Specifying encoder resolution
      • Specifying encoder unit of measure
      • Specifying encoder count direction
      • Specifying encoder reference marks
      • Specifying reference offsets
  • Tools/Customize menu item screens
    • Including a startup message
    • Customizing colors
    • Specifying on-screen help tips
    • Specifying error messages
    • Specifying status bar information
    • Customizing toolbars
    • Setting up programming parameters
    • Specifying the maximum program executions
    • Restricting access to setup screens
    • Configuring measurement parameters
    • Displaying parts and probe position
    • Configuring joystick and footswitch buttons
    • Setting the display of resolution, time and date
    • Specifying encoder parameters
    • Specifying file names, locations and backups
    • Setting serial port, machine zero and general parameters
    • Setting up the video probes
    • Setting up the joystick