The Insert | Alignment | Recall menu option recalls an alignment that was previously created in the current measurement routine (Internal Alignment) or saved from another measurement routine (External Alignment). You can also recall an alignment using the Alignment list on the Settings toolbar. For information, see the "Settings Toolbar" topic.
This command can only be inserted outside an alignment block.
The Alignment Block is the block of text in the Edit window that defines the alignment. It consists of the ALIGNMENT/START command and ends with the ALIGNMENT/END command.
The Recall button in the Alignment Utilities dialog box (Insert | Alignment | New) also enables you to recall an existing alignment, but it only enables you to recall alignments previously created in that measurement routine (internal alignments).
Before an alignment can be recalled to another measurement routine, you must save it to a folder with the Insert | Alignment | Save menu option. For information on how to do this, see "Saving an Alignment".
If the alignment you want to recall has different units of measurement than the current measurement routine, its measurement units are automatically converted to the units of measurement of the current measurement routine.
All recall external alignment commands re-load their external alignment file when the measurement routine is first opened. During this process, if the new alignment transforms differ from the existing alignment, PC-DMIS displays a prompt asking if you want to update affected commands in the Edit window to use the new alignment. For more information, see "Updating Commands When Loading a Measurement Routine" in the "Updating Dependent Commands When the Alignment Changes" topic.
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