You can use the Cylinder icon to measure the diameter, cylindricity, and orientation of the axis of a cylinder oriented in space. PC-DMIS also calculates the position of the baricenter of the points picked.

To create a measured cylinder, you must take a minimum of six hits on the cylinder. You must distribute the points to be picked uniformly over the surface of the cylinder. The first three points picked must lie on a plane perpendicular to the main axis.

Example Cylinder with eight points

For information on the associated Edit window command, see the "Basic Measurement Format for a Cylinder" topic in the "Creating Measured Features" chapter.