Trapping Controls

GR-Features and other Relationships offer quite a bit of automation control during the inspection process without any need for MP integration. This automation is controlled per feature through the features Trapping Controls which are accessed either directly through a features right-click menu or its Properties.

The primary benefit in pre-configuring features using Trapping Controls is to allow automated measurements to be built into an inspection process. These include operations such as:

 

Trapping Controls Offer the Following Operations:

Exclude Feature from Inspection

Instrument Info

 

Expected Data Type to Measure and Associate

The trapping control dialog is completely dynamic and expands and contracts to display the relevant options for 3 basic categories of measurement.

 

Points or Vectors Selection Options:

Guide Data

Choose either points or vectors to guide the measurement operation. When set the group being used is shown:

The Guide Data selection will also override any existing Measurement Count Settings, which can be seen in the Geometry Fit Settings section of the feature properties:

This Guide Data selection works well in conjunction with the Auto Measure Guide Data option to automatically perform and auto measure operation when trapping begins for this feature. This guide data selection can be set based on the measurements in the feature using the command Convert Measured Points to Guided.

 

Tactile Manual Measurements

 

Measure Closest Point

 

Measure Point List Sequentially

 

Clouds and Geometry

Selecting either Clouds or Geometry as the expected data type will reduce the selection options as shown below.

These settings depend greatly and the application and are discussed under the Configure Instrument options can be found Here.

 

Apply to Selected

The Apply to Selected section of the GR-Feature or Relationship Properties includes an option to apply the basic Trapping Control settings. Couple of notes on this:

 

Additional Controls

Information on Callouts, Linked MPs can be found Here.