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Measuring
Chapter 6:
Measuring
Measurements can be performed using single-fixed, star, indexable or friction hard probes or touch probes.
Activities can be limited to probing features, or can include the construction or creation of new features in
addition to probing. However measurements are conducted, the fundamental measurement process and the
tools required to perform measurements remain unchanged. Here’s what you’ll find in this chapter:
Measurement activities.....................................................................................38
The measurement process ................................................................................38
Establishing a reference frame .........................................................................39
Part leveling ..............................................................................................39
Part skew alignment ..................................................................................40
Establishing a datum zero point ................................................................41
Saving the reference frame .......................................................................43
Measuring features ...........................................................................................45
Selecting a projection plane ......................................................................45
Probing features ........................................................................................46
Probing process ..................................................................................48
Probing specific feature types ...................................................................50
Constructing features .......................................................................................61
Duplicate features .....................................................................................61
Extracted features ......................................................................................62
Intersection features ..................................................................................62
Relation features .......................................................................................63
Multipoint features ....................................................................................63
Perpendicular/parallel/tangent features .....................................................64
Gage line and circle features .....................................................................65
Creating features ..............................................................................................66