Surface Profile - Iterate and Repierce function

Ok, I'm going to answer my own question here based on some experimentation and give myself, and anyone else who might come along later, some advice:

What does it do?: It seems to work like a mini iterative alignment for your profile dimension. It will take your measured points and move them around on the CAD model within the tolerance zone you allow. It moves, pierces, iterates, re-pierces, and reiterates until it hits your maximum allowed iterations. Then it spits out the best answer it has found.

Rules: You MUST specify a tolerance zone at least as big as the radius of your ruby. In practice it seems that you must go a bit bigger, ~.005", or it will occasionally throw a best fit error message and give you some crazy results.

How well does it work? : At first it works great. It generally improved my profile numbers by ~.001-.002 in an .008 zone. In my opinion that is a very significant improvement.

So what's the catch? : Only that it slowly and quietly chews away at the integrity of your programs' nominals and eventually something breaks and your program falls apart in a sudden and catastrophic failure. Other than that its great!

Unsolicited advice: DO NOT turn this on in your master production program. If you do, make sure you have a very good collection of backups (I did, luckily). If you want to use this add in one of the auto save-as scripts that are in the code samples forum so you have a copy of each part inspection. Then, after making a backup, turn this feature on in the saved off file that contains your actual inspection data and it will run the iteration and, very likely, give you a better number for your profile dimension. This way it only gets run once and won't continuously overwrite the nominals in your master program.

Also, probably best to check with your customer before providing data created with this feature. It is unclear to me whether this feature is truly compliant with the ASME standard.

Hope this is helpful to someone.

Ok, I'm going to answer my own question here based on some experimentation and give myself, and anyone else who might come along later, some advice:

What does it do?: It seems to work like a mini iterative alignment for your profile dimension. It will take your measured points and move them around on the CAD model within the tolerance zone you allow. It moves, pierces, iterates, re-pierces, and reiterates until it hits your maximum allowed iterations. Then it spits out the best answer it has found.

Rules: You MUST specify a tolerance zone at least as big as the radius of your ruby. In practice it seems that you must go a bit bigger, ~.005", or it will occasionally throw a best fit error message and give you some crazy results.

How well does it work? : At first it works great. It generally improved my profile numbers by ~.001-.002 in an .008 zone. In my opinion that is a very significant improvement.

So what's the catch? : Only that it slowly and quietly chews away at the integrity of your programs' nominals and eventually something breaks and your program falls apart in a sudden and catastrophic failure. Other than that its great!

Unsolicited advice: DO NOT turn this on in your master production program. If you do, make sure you have a very good collection of backups (I did, luckily). If you want to use this add in one of the auto save-as scripts that are in the code samples forum so you have a copy of each part inspection. Then, after making a backup, turn this feature on in the saved off file that contains your actual inspection data and it will run the iteration and, very likely, give you a better number for your profile dimension. This way it only gets run once and won't continuously overwrite the nominals in your master program.

Also, probably best to check with your customer before providing data created with this feature. It is unclear to me whether this feature is truly compliant with the ASME standard.

Hope this is helpful to someone.