PC-DMIS Laser: Introduction

This documentation describes how to use PC-DMIS with your laser sensor to measure features on a part, or to collect data. Laser sensors allow you to collect millions of points of data in one or more clouds of points (COP). PC-DMIS then uses these clouds of points for surface contour maps, export to reverse engineering packages, and creation of constructed features and auto features. This documentation discusses how to use PC-DMIS with a non-contact laser sensor to collect and interpret those clouds of points.

PC-DMIS Laser supports these hardware configurations:

• Perceptron - Digital, V4, V4i, V4ix, and V5

• HP-L-10.6 (CMS106) for DCC

• HP-L-20.8 for DCC and Portable

• HP-L-5.8 for CMM. The supported types are:

• HP-L-5.8A-SYSTEM (AJ)

• HP-L-5.8T-SYSTEM (TKJ)

You can use the CMS108 on both DCC and Portable machines.

The main topics in this help document include:

• Attributes for Laser Measurement

• Getting Started

• Using the Probe Toolbox in PC-DMIS Laser

• Execution Modes

• Using Sound Events

• Using the Laser View

• Using the Scan Line Indicator

• Understanding the Visualization Tools

• Pointcloud Scanning Colors

• Using the Laser Toolbars

• Using Pointclouds

• Pointcloud Operators

• Gages

• Pointcloud Alignments

• TCP/IP Pointcloud Server

• Extracting Auto Features from Pointclouds

• Extracting Auto Features from a Mesh

• Creating Auto Features with a Laser Sensor

• Clearing Auto Feature Scan Data

• Scanning Your Part Using a Laser Sensor

• Simulate Scanning by Importing a Pointcloud

• Handling Laser Sensor Errors with On Error Command

• Using the Mesh Commands

If you come across something in the software that isn't covered in this documentation, see the PC-DMIS Core documentation.