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198 QC5200 Series User’s Guide
Adding tolerances
The process of assigning tolerances to features is described earlier in Chapter 6: Tolerancing. Please refer
to chapter 6 for details.
Reporting results
Typically, measurement results are reported by printing or exporting the mea-
surement and tolerance data. Many report formats can be developed by the
user and used to report results.
Reporting activities must be performed in the order shown here. Reports can
be printed and exported to other computers as data files. Detailed instructions
for all the reporting steps are included in Chapter 7: Reporting and Tem-
plates.
Optimizing program steps
When a program runs, the user is guided (or the CNC stage is driven) along a
path that follows the feature shapes as points are probed. This path is either
the exact path followed by the user as measurements were recorded or is the
path assigned by the system during Auto programming. Often this path is
not the most efficient and the throughput can be increased by shortening or
optimizing it. The Optimize Steps function attempts to create an efficient
path for any collection of program steps highlighted in the Program template.
In the example shown here the probing path required to measure 7 features is
shortened 26% by optimizing program steps.
To optimize program steps:
1 Highlight the program steps that you wish to optimize.
NOTE
Do not highlight the first few features that were
measured when the measurement reference was
created.
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