Reporting Measurement Results: Overview

After you measure your part, it's important to be able to communicate your measurement results with others. PC-DMIS, by default, sends your measurement data to a standard textual report, called an inspection report. It includes comprehensive data about each feature measured by your measurement routine. You can send this report to the printer or to a file and later view stored reports by selecting View | Inspection Report. See "Viewing an Inspection Report" and "Printing the Report Window".

For many tasks, the standard inspection report may be exactly what you need. However, PC-DMIS also gives you some powerful tools to generate your own interactive reports. With these tools, you can use templates to determine exactly how your reports look and what information gets included in them. Also, with these templates, you can maintain a consistent look and feel across several reports.

In addition, you have the option to create reports for specific measurement routines called "Custom Reports". This is a useful solution when your reporting needs don't require the use of report templates.

This chapter covers the following main topics:

• Reporting Tutorials

• Working with Legacy (HyperView) Reports

• Report Generation Sequence

• About the Report Window

• Using Standard Reports

• Viewing a Legacy Text Report

• Reported Tolerance Zones for Form Dimensions

• Rearranging Report Pages

• Modifying Standard Templates

• Using .DAT Files in Generated Reports

• Modifying the Report's Header

• Changing the Report's Text Colors

• Adding Notes to a Report

• About the Reporting and Form Editors

• Creating Templates

• Creating Forms

• Creating Custom Reports

• About Report Expressions

• Using PC-DMIS ActiveX Controls

• Tutorial - Using Scripting to Enhance your Report

• Working with PDF 3D Files