The following description lists the rules that you need to follow to have manual scanning compensate correctly and with greater speed on Arm CMMs.
All Types of Manual Scans
You should not lock any axis during the scan. PC-DMIS takes the scan by crossing the probe over a keyed-in body axis location. Each time the probe crosses this given plane, the CMM takes a reading and passes it to PC-DMIS.
On this type of scan, you must type the InitVec and the DirVec values in the Part Coordinate System. This is required to work together with the body axis location.
Make sure you type the body axis in the Part Coordinate System.