The mini routines were broken in 2023.1 and have never worked since. Apparently, you now have to use groups to use them, which is nowhere in the help file and completely different than the original method.
As a customer I would say that the way it appeared to work before needing to use groups was much more functional and appealing. Being able to select any combination of dimensions and create multiple mini routines seems ideal for creating OP inspections. Otherwise, it's really no different than using marked sets. I was hoping for an easier selection process than that. Programs like Calypso have this functionality where you can select characteristics to measure, and it measures all features and alignments that have a dependency on the dimensions you select and only those needed to report your selection. Used in conjunction with the Clearance Cube makes this really powerful, IMO.
I did some testing and honestly this is pretty useless now and seems broken. All it does is unmark anything not in a group. So, you need to make groups out of everything in the program and track what is inside of each group for it to work. And it marks the alignment features even if I uncheck the box Mark Manual Alignment Features. I unmarked everything in the program and it still marked the alignment features. And it doesn't work for marking/grouping dimensions. I put all the dimensions in 1 group and then was able to select just the ones I wanted and create a mini routine. That's good. The problem is it still runs the entire program because the features are still marked, but reports only the dimensions I asked for.
This seems broken and not functional at all.
So, my question is why? Why was this changed? Or is this something that was broken while making "improvements" to the program?
Robert
