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CMM PC DMIS highlight out-tolerance points

analyzer_t
Hello!
I have measured some data and I wanted to highlight the points that came out "out tolerance" points. When I select whole CAD and click show all ids, it shows some points but not all of them. But I specifically wanted to see the points that came out out-tolerance and look more closely to them, to later on analyze those points. And If you could I wanted to see the moments where the CMM machines put its actual points on the whole measurement. I am doing these by clicking the dimension button and then by searching and clicking the exact point. But it's not convenient.

I will appreciate any help you can provide!
Thank you!!!
  • One thing that can be helpful for evaluating lots of dimensions, particularly point t-values or profile points, is to create DIMINFO boxes of the dimensions. There are lots of options about what to display in these boxes. For individual points it can be helpful to just show the feature ID or Dimesion ID and the measured value. There is a colored bar at the top of each box that is colored based on the status of the measurement based on your Dimension Colors settings - for example, green for in tolerance and red for out of tolerance. It can seem like a jumbled mess when you have a lot of points being measured, but it really can be a great way to evaluate lots of data at once. You can zoom in on problem areas and make better sense of things.

    Here is a link to the help file on DimInfo Boxes: Inserting Dimension Info Boxes (hexagonmi.com)​

    Here is an example of how that could look. In this case I'm just showing the measured values of some points and the positions of some holes. Sorry, I can't show the part model, but hopefully you can get the idea.

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  • Another option I find helpful to show just the features that are out of tolerance is to use shortcuts to jump to features and then highlight them in the Graphics Display Window. Here is how that works:
    1. Hide all the features in the graphics display window.
    2. Scroll through the edit window until you see a feature that is out of tolerance.
    3. Put your cursor on the name of the feature being reported.
    4. Press Ctrl+J to jump to that feature in the edit window.
    5. Press Ctrl+Shift+H to highlight the feature in the graphics display window.
    6. Press Alt+J to jump back to the dimension.
    7. Repeat this process to highlight all the features that are out of tolerance.
    This may seem tedious, but I actually do this a lot. It helps that I'm typically just dealing with a handful of out of tolerance features on each part.
    If you find yourself doing this often it can help to get a macro programmable keyboard or mouse to do step 4-6 with a single button/key press.
  • Another option I find helpful to show just the features that are out of tolerance is to use shortcuts to jump to features and then highlight them in the Graphics Display Window. Here is how that works:
    1. Hide all the features in the graphics display window.
    2. Scroll through the edit window until you see a feature that is out of tolerance.
    3. Put your cursor on the name of the feature being reported.
    4. Press Ctrl+J to jump to that feature in the edit window.
    5. Press Ctrl+Shift+H to highlight the feature in the graphics display window.
    6. Press Alt+J to jump back to the dimension.
    7. Repeat this process to highlight all the features that are out of tolerance.
    This may seem tedious, but I actually do this a lot. It helps that I'm typically just dealing with a handful of out of tolerance features on each part.
    If you find yourself doing this often it can help to get a macro programmable keyboard or mouse to do step 4-6 with a single button/key press.

    That looks like a good candidate for a script triggered by an toolbar icon...Put your cursor at the feature and then click the icon...


  • That looks like a good candidate for a script triggered by an toolbar icon...Put your cursor at the feature and then click the icon...

    I have certainly tried. My hangup is that I haven't managed to highlight/show/display a feature in the Graphics window using script commands. A function seems to be there to do it, but it just doesn't work, or I'm not using it right. I started a Topic for that a while back to find a solution, but it wasn't resolved.
  • in reply to Cris_C
    Why have i not known about crtl + shift+ h?!
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