To show or hide the Quick Fixture toolbar, do one of the following:
From the Graphic
Modes toolbar, select the Quick Fixture
Mode icon ().
Select Operation | Graphic Display Window | Change Screen Mode | Quick Fixture Mode.
When the toolbar appears, the software permanently docks the Quick Fixture toolbar vertically to the right side of the main application window.
The toolbar provides drop-down functionality for some of the buttons. PC-DMIS stores the last selected option for each of these buttons and displays them the next time the software shows the Quick Fixture toolbar:
Many of the buttons on this toolbar are mode buttons. The currently selected mode has a blue highlight.
Drop
- This mode drops the selected quick fixture onto whatever object lies
below it in the Graphic Display window. If there is nothing in the Z minus
direction, then nothing happens. If there is, then the fixture drops down
until it touches the object.
Level
- This mode takes the normal surface vector of where you just clicked
and squares that up with the machine coordinate system.
Rotate
- This mode takes the point where you just clicked and drops that invisible
point on to the closest edge. It then squares up the vector that is tangent
to the curve at the drop point. The rotate is a 2D squaring, looking down
the current view normal.
Square
- This mode squares up the selected quick fixture so that its axes are
parallel to the CAD axes shown by the trihedron.
Delete
- This mode deletes the selected quick fixture object.
Link
- This enters a grouping mode that groups all on-screen fixture components
together so that dragging or rotating one fixture drags or rotates them
all together. When it is cleared, you can manipulate the fixture components
individually.
Fix in Place - If you have linked fixture components,
this fixes in place the location of the selected component in the set
of linked components so that it doesn't move. That component remains fixed
at its current location, even if you then move other components of the
linked set.
Save
- This opens a Save As dialog box so you can
save any on-screen fixture elements. If you have more than one fixture
on the screen, then PC-DMIS saves them all as a single set. Saved fixtures
get stored in the expandable USER tree in the
Quick Fixture dialog box for later use.
X
move - This mode allows fixture movement only along the X axis.
Y
move - This mode allows fixture movement only along the Y axis.
Z
move - This mode allows fixture movement only along the Z axis.
XY
move - This mode allows fixture movement only along the X and Y
axes.
YZ
move - This mode allows fixture movement only along the Y and Z
axes.
ZX
move - This mode allows fixture movement only along the Z and X
axes.
XY rotate - This mode allows rotation only in
the XY plane. To rotate, press Ctrl and drag the fixture.
YZ rotate - This mode allows rotation only in
the YZ plane. To rotate, press Ctrl and drag the fixture.
ZX rotate - This mode allows rotation only in
the ZX plane. To rotate, press Ctrl and drag the fixture.
Position
Fixture - This displays the Quick Fixture
position dialog box, thereby allowing you to work with CAD features contained
on supported fixtures themselves. For more information, see "Using
the Quick Fixture Position Dialog Box" located in the "Defining
Hardware" chapter.