Area Profile Check

Area Profile check builds a new vector group to display the relative difference between the evaluated vector group(s) and the reference vectors with a specified area.

The Area Profile check has several inputs:

Reference Vectors can be simply sub-sampled or built yourself. The spacing of these reference vectors define the evaluation coverage. With more gaps, regions will be missed, however, with more overlap you end up with redundant data and a slower evaluation:

As an example, if you wish to evaluate the area profile at 0.005” in every 5” segment using the following Reference Vectors

This Area Profile Check would produce the following result:

The evaluation process is as follows:

  1. For each reference vector a list of vectors is created that fall within the evaluation radius.

  2. For each vector in the list a new vector is created with the same position and orientation. The magnitude of this new vector is equal to vector magnitude minus the reference vector magnitude.

  3. The color (Red/blue out of tolerance, or Green in tolerance) is set based upon your specified tolerance.

The resulting vector group shows the difference between the reference vector magnitude and the returned vector for each evaluated region and can be useful in evaluating the relative change in magnitude within a region.