Executing Measurement Routines to Measure Parts

Executing Routines to Measure Parts

You can execute measurement routines to measure parts from these areas:

From the Home screen you can execute routines in these ways:

Click the Execute Routine button to open the Parts screen. Select one or more measurement routine tiles. Hover your pointer over the selected tiles, and then click on an execute button (). If the routines that you selected are from your computer, the software executes the products one a time in the order that you selected them.

Search for a product by typing a product's ID or name into the Product ID box search box on the Home screen. The software searches the defined folders. After you locate the product you want to run, click continue ( Continue button ) and then click execute.

(You can show or hide the Product ID search box with the Search setting located under the Home Elements section of the Settings screen.)

If you use the Barcode add-on, you can use the Scan Part button to either scan a product or paste a product ID to look up that product and then click the execute button.

If you use the Recent add-on, in the Recent box, select a recent product, routine, or playlist, and then click the execute button.

If you use the EYE-D add-on, click Detect Part.

You can also execute a playlist of routines. For information, see "Using Playlists".

Dimension Sets

In addition to playlists, you can execute subsets of routines, known as dimension sets. These dimension sets appear in the Details pane under the Dimension Sets area. This area only appears if you have a measurement routine with defined dimension sets (in PC-DMIS, for example, these sets are known as marked sets or mini routines).

For dimension sets to work, in PC-DMIS, be sure to mark the Support execution time display and Inspect check box on the General tab of the Setup Options dialog box.

To execute a set, from the Details pane, choose the desired set, and click Execute. Inspect follows the general execution process for the measurement application, then it shows the Measure screen and the post-execution results as usual. With the Out of Tolerance button in the Details pane, you can execute only the out-of-tolerance items in the last-executed dimension set or sets. For more information, see "Dimension Sets" in "The Details Pane".

About Scheduler and Execution

If you have the Scheduler add-on enabled, important scheduled tasks, such as probe calibration and Swift-Check execution can be enforced according to a defined schedule in the Settings screen, Scheduler section. This can affect what happens during execution. For example, if the probe's calibration or if a Swift-Check is out of date, Inspect cannot execute the routine, and it shows an error message.