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Tips and Tricks: how to do a basic Circle Scan

I've seen questions like this throughout the site but the answers never get copied to the "How To" part of the form which should be the natural place to look so I thought I would post how I did it.

(Extremely Basic Scan)
MANUAL MODE:
Measure plane, 3 points.(ON THE FACE WHICH THE HOLE IS IN)
Measure the Circle, 3 points
ALIGN: LEVEL PLANE AND ORIGIN IN "Z" THEN ORIGIN THE CIRCLE IN "X AND Y".

Enter DCC MODE: (good practice to add a clearplane in here)
INSERT/SCAN/CIRCLE
Type of Circle:IN or OUT
DIAMETER: Enter the size of your Circle you got from your Manually measured Circle
DEPTH: Enter how deep you want to Scan (Note: because of the alignment you will not need to enter a "minus" value, if you want to measure 2mm down just enter 2.000 instead of -2.000)

Create a Circle from the Scan and tolerance accordingly.

It may not be the prettiest way of doing it (I don't have CAD Models) but I found it to be good training practice.
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