I have a profile with only a negative tolerance. How is my measured value positive, but the part is checking outtol=0. is the meas on the report an absolute value? I am exporting everything to measurlink and it is having trouble with the negative tolerance but positive meas.
I would recomend 'T' value reporting, even if only for reference of the individual point analysis. I've found 'T' to be the most reliable when looking to understand stock-on / stock-off conditions. 'T' value will ALWAYS show a possitive value for stock on and negative value for stock off. So the tolerancing can be based exactly as the leader line in your print depicts to cover the tolerance of your surface.
Use auto vector points on the surface instead of a scan and then when you dimension these points untick X,Y and Z and tick the 'T' value box.
I have done this a few times with customers where I have agreed a few points to report instead of reporting a whole scanned surface. It all depends on the part and the customer of course if just a few points will suffice.
Another way to skin this cat is to open your report, right click on that profile callout and edit object. This will open a dialogue box allowing you to check min and check max, and you can reorder how everything shows up. Make sure to look for the checkbox that speaks to updating all similar labels or just this one to avoid adding min max to a bunch of other items on your report.
You're origin-ed to your part. You then go ahead and put vector points. When you report the "T Value" of those points, the software will tell you the vector deviation from nominal (based off of the model nominal) that the points are reading. So, lets say you have a whole bunch of points on 1 wall. When you dimension those T values of those points and they all read somewhere in the neighborhood of +0.005", then that is telling you that in comparison to the model and based off of your origin, that area is roughly +0.005" stock on.
ok, that makes sense. i will see if that is the way they want me to go. all of these features are made with form tools, so i dont see an issue with it.
