Laser scanners can scan and store thousands of points. PC-DMIS can then create colormap commands from these points. These colormaps can show deviations in a colored overlay. In the report, it does this with the CADReportObject (CRO).
For information on colormap commands, see the "Surface Colormap" and "Point Colormap" topics in the "PC-DMIS Laser" documentation.
For Standard Reports
The Report window shows a CRO on a new page for each marked colormap command. These CROs show the cad image with the colormap overlay. The colormap command defines what colormap appears.
For Custom Reports
You can add your own CRO and then drag a specific colormap command onto it.
In this way you can still view the colormaps but keep measured features and points hidden if Hide all measured features and Hide all points properties are set to Yes.
For surface colormaps, if you associate more than one surface colormap to a CRO, it uses the last associated surface colormap.
For point colormaps, you can combine point colormaps with other colormaps (point or surface) and show them all.
If you drag and drop the same colormap onto the CRO where it's already been dropped, PC-DMIS removes that colormap from the CRO.
If you do not associate any colormap with a CRO, PC-DMIS still attempts to show a colormap for that CRO. When it runs the REPORT/CUSTOM command it searches up from the insertion point. It uses the first colormap above the REPORT/CUSTOM command for the CRO. For information on the REPORT/CUSTOM command, see "The REPORT Command" in the "Inserting Report Commands" chapter.
For an example of dragging and dropping onto a CRO in a Custom Report, see "Dragging and Dropping Information into a Custom Report".
For information on Custom Reports in general, see "Creating Custom Reports".