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Offline Programming - Vision/White Light Sensor Scanning Points

Good Morning Gentlemen,

I am starting to try and program routines offline using Vision. Some of the routines I am trying include Vision points for alignments and then proceeding with white light scanning for the features of interest. My constructed features for alignments like a Line for my rotation using Edge points fails because of the math, or basically lack of actual points.

How difficult is it to switch between points taken on the actual part versus on the CAD and mingling between the two? Is this even possible?
For example my alignment with Vision on the part and setting up my Scanning paths on my CAD. I only ask this because scanning is way easier on CAD but I have managed without it.


I have zero experience with trying to program Vision offline let alone scanning. I also do not have much experience with CAD programming but i know the basic rules of it, and I have never programmed a Vision routine to a CAD model either.

Would I just be better off dealing and going online?

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  • " My constructed features for alignments like a Line for my rotation using Edge points fails because of the math, or basically lack of actual points."

    Constructed features that fail offline will fail online as well. If you meant measured features, make sure the "Measure Now Toggle" is off. That's the green icon just below the "Polar/Cartesian Toggle", which is just below the X,Y and Z boxes in Auto Feature.
  • So if I turn off "Measure Now" and write a Vision routine offline but take edge points for alignments and a scan also does not give me any points unless the scan has been actually run. Would I then toggle "Measure Now" on before I run Online so it populates my Constructed features and Scan sets with actual points?
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  • So if I turn off "Measure Now" and write a Vision routine offline but take edge points for alignments and a scan also does not give me any points unless the scan has been actually run. Would I then toggle "Measure Now" on before I run Online so it populates my Constructed features and Scan sets with actual points?
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