Step 12: Select Additional Features

Along with taking hits with your probe to measure features, you can use the QuickFeatures functionality to add features to your measurement routine. QuickFeatures provide a handy way to add features if you have a CAD model for the part.

Top Face - Add Bolt Hole Pattern of Eight Circles

This process adds eight more circle features into the measurement routine from a bolt-hole pattern.

1. From the Graphic Modes toolbar, choose Translate mode ().

2. On your graphics model, click the top face to select it (1). It turns a highlighted, light-blue color.

3. Hold the Shift key and hover the pointer over a small circular feature. This tutorial uses the circle that is nearest to the bottom edge of the top face. This highlights all circular features of that diameter on that surface (2).

4. Once all those circle features are highlighted in yellow, click the feature to create the highlighted circular features (3).

Top Face - Add Two Nested Large Inner Cylinders

This process adds two inner cylinder features nested within each other into the measurement routine.

1. Click the top surface again to deselect it.

2. Hold the Shift key and hover the pointer over the inside surface of the larger inner cylinder. You may need to zoom in on the part to select the cylinder:

3. Once it highlights the cylinder in yellow, click the cylinder to create the feature. PC-DMIS inserts CYL1 into the Edit window.

4. Use QuickFeatures and repeat the above on the smaller nested inner cylinder:

PC-DMIS inserts CYL2 into the Edit window.

Front Face - Add the Outer Cylinder

This process adds the outer cylinder features on the front face into the measurement routine.

1. Hold the Shift key and hover the pointer over the outside surface of the outer cylinder on the front face.

2. Once it highlights the cylinder in yellow, click the cylinder to create the feature. PC-DMIS inserts CYL3 into the Edit window.

For more information on QuickFeatures, see the "Creating QuickFeatures" topic in the "Creating Auto Features" chapter in the PC-DMIS Core documentation.

Go to the next step: "Construct New Features from Existing Features"

Related Topics:

Creating a Measured Circle

Creating a Measured Cone