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SA Toolkit Enhancements for Streamlined Inspection

Inspection in SpatialAnalyzer (SA) has never been easier. The newly enhanced SA Toolkit streamlines the process of repetitive inspection tasks—just add each feature needing inspection to a list of tasks and repeat the inspection as needed.  The SA Toolkit provides easy access to geometry relationships as well as a structure in which to put them to use, thus revolutionizing the part inspection workflow process in SA.  Below are a few of the unique capabilities recently added to the SA Toolkit.

SA Toolkit Enhancements for Streamlined Inspection

Inspection in SpatialAnalyzer (SA) has never been easier.  The newly enhanced SA Toolkit streamlines the process of repetitive inspection tasks—just add each feature needing inspection to a list of tasks and repeat the inspection as needed.  The SA Toolkit provides easy access to geometry relationships as well as a structure in which to put them to use, thus revolutionizing the part inspection workflow process in SA.  Below are a few of the unique capabilities recently added to the SA Toolkit.

 

Streamlined Advancement and Navigation through the Inspection Task—
Using Repeat, Measurement Counts, and Loop & Iterate

In order for an inspection process to run efficiently, you need the freedom to measure without returning to the computer.  Below are three simple ways the SA Toolkit allows you to do just that:

 

 

Building a Guided Inspection using Callouts linked to Trapping and Enhanced Highlighting and Reordering of Features

A second major advantage to using the SA Toolkit:  when measuring a part, you are also building a repeatable inspection process that can be either directly repeated or greatly enhanced to provide a guided inspection routine.  Two significant enhancements have been recently made to assist in this process:

 

 

Using measured features for alignment through the Compare to Nominal Center Point Alignment

SA provides a wide selection of advanced alignment options.  For a simple, straightforward alignment that allows you to take the features you have already inspected and best fit them to the nominal geometry, try the procedure below.  Many features such as Spheres, Circles, Slots, Ellipses, and Average Points are point reducible and you can take advantage of this by using this new feature.  To use this feature simple, follow the steps below:

 

When complete, the transform is applied and the instrument is snapped into position.  This alignment can also be repeated through the instrument alignment button at the top of the inspection tab.

 

 

Group to Nominal Group Relationship

In the SA 2015.02.25 release, a new relationship type was added to the SA Toolkit called a Group to Nominal Group relationship.  Although a group to group relationship already exists in SA, this new relationship is designed for inspection and provides the following advantages:

 

Reporting Enhancements

A significant advantage of using SA geometry relationships is that every edit you make to your alignment and every point you measure automatically updates the position and orientation of the measured geometry and the comparison with the nominal.  By adding those relationships to an SA Report, your report automatically updates while you measure and therefore will be complete when you take your last point.  The SA 2015.02.25 release includes tools that allow you to easily select and auto-arrange sections of a report to account for dynamic table structures and reporting capabilities.

 

Questions about any of the shortcuts explained above?  Do you have any hints or tips of your own that you’d like to share?  Contact NRK at support@kinematics.com.

 

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