Reporting True Position Without Size?

I use legacy.

I'll fill out the T.P. dialogue box & click "OK". When the T.P. code is in my "Edit Window", I highlight the line that shows the diameter and I delete it.

There is no way (that I know of) from within the dialogue box to turn off the diameter when reporting T.P.

Funny you brought this up, I was literally just programming some threaded holes and doing this prior to logging onto the forum.

I have never used legacy. I would like too. The class i went to PC-DMIS for CMM didnt talk about legacy at all. Only Xact. I know where to turn it on! So that's a start i guess.

There is a huge difference between the two methods. Just be careful!

When you use XACT to report GD&T, the Datums you select in the DRF Builder are looked at by PC DMIS and the software makes an alignment IN THE BACKGROUND (you see no code) and uses THAT for the reporting of the current dimension. If you have a sound datum structure on your blueprint, this can save you a lot of time by cutting down on the amount of alignments you'd have had to make in order to measure your part.

In legacy, you have to build the alignments you want based off of features you measure and then use/recall that alignment (AND use correct workplane) when you're measuring as well as reporting features relative to that alignment.

I use Legacy because I quite commonly get prints where the GD&T "isn't quite right".. or where if I used the exact DRF on XACT, the result I'd get wouldn't be quite what I want (maybe the print says ABC but the view I have to report is a rotation of that, so the XY values would be off & the operator would be confused if I used XACT). It is a little bit more work but by doing this you can control what your program is doing 100% instead of allowing PC DMIS to make it's own decisions. Lgacy also looks much better (IMO).. You can actually see code in your edit window that makes sense (as opposed to XACT where you have to F9 it to see what it is).

There is a huge difference between the two methods. Just be careful!

When you use XACT to report GD&T, the Datums you select in the DRF Builder are looked at by PC DMIS and the software makes an alignment IN THE BACKGROUND (you see no code) and uses THAT for the reporting of the current dimension. If you have a sound datum structure on your blueprint, this can save you a lot of time by cutting down on the amount of alignments you'd have had to make in order to measure your part.

In legacy, you have to build the alignments you want based off of features you measure and then use/recall that alignment (AND use correct workplane) when you're measuring as well as reporting features relative to that alignment.

I use Legacy because I quite commonly get prints where the GD&T "isn't quite right".. or where if I used the exact DRF on XACT, the result I'd get wouldn't be quite what I want (maybe the print says ABC but the view I have to report is a rotation of that, so the XY values would be off & the operator would be confused if I used XACT). It is a little bit more work but by doing this you can control what your program is doing 100% instead of allowing PC DMIS to make it's own decisions. Lgacy also looks much better (IMO).. You can actually see code in your edit window that makes sense (as opposed to XACT where you have to F9 it to see what it is).