Changes resulting from our user's suggestions during the SA User's Group held in Williamsburg, VA on 04/13/2010 are indicated .  Thank you!

Leica AT401

Added support for the Leica AT401.

Tutorials Added to Roadmap

Several tutorials have been added to Roadmap:

• Inspection with GD&T (Beginner)
• Designing a GD&T Inspection (Beginner)

Look for additional tutorials to be added in the future.

GD&T Results in Graphical View

The results for GD&T checks can now be displayed in the graphical view.  Incomplete checks are not displayed.  Visibility options can be controlled through the User Options > Display tab.

Dynamic Report Improvements

• Dynamic Reports now have the ability to be locked.  When a Dynamic Report is locked, the reports are "frozen" and no longer updated.  A locked report is designated with a flashing notice and noted in the report footer.

• Table headers are now aware of pagination.  Headers from one page are repeated on following pages for a given table.

• Report objects now support "Bring to Front" and "Send to Back" via right mouse-clicking.

UDP support for Watch Windows

Watch Windows now support UDP Network Packet streaming.

• Right-click a watch window and select UDP Broadcast from the menu.
• Note - you can use the SpatialAnalyzer UDP Monitor application that ships with SA to see the broadcast data.

Auto-Correspond With Proximity Trigger

• With a watch window displayed, the closest point or vector will be centered in the view.  

• If Measure Once is checked, when all the points or vectors are measured the watch window will close and the view will center about the selected points or vectors.
• Redesigned the user interface to be more compact.

STL Export

Added support for exporting in ASCII Text STL format.  Choose File > Export > STL File > Binary STL File or > ASCII STL File.

GD&T Enhancements

• Added Circular Runout and Total Runout feature checks.

• Added report options for Feature Checks to control what is included in the report.

GD&T Toolbar Enhancements

• Re-arranged the buttons so they are more logically grouped by check type.
• Added the ability to create datum targets.
• Added easier specification of Datums when creating Feature Checks.
• Examples (exclude the double-quotes)
  • "ABC"   - A primary, B secondary, C tertiary.
  • "A@MBC" - A at MMC primary, B secondary, C tertiary.
  • "A-BCD" - A-B primary, C secondary, D tertiary.

Measurement Plans

Added argument to Set Vector Group Display Attributes for drawing tubes.

Geometry Triggers

Geometry Triggers now support multiple object selection for planes, cylinders and spheres:

Relationship Fitting

Normalize weight option added: resets all weights to 1.0.

Vector Groups

For the Show Out of Tolerance Vectors only option, the in-tolerance points (hidden) are not included in graphical selection.

Open Existing File Made Easier

1. Open a job file.
2. Make some changes to the file without saving
3. Select File>>Open and pick the same file which is already open

This new behavior avoids the old requirement where you needed to select File > New before reverting to an already-open file.

Projected Angle Vector Representation

The vector representation is now expressed in dX, dY and dZ.

PCMM Arm Improvments

Patch (Projected Point) measurement - Radial offset is no longer set to zero for projected points sent to SA--only the planar offset.

Watch Windows with Trackers

Watch windows will now trigger the "Watch Update" profile if present.  This minimizes the number of steps required for starting a watch window.

Instrument Model Updates

Some instrument models have been improved.