QuickCloud Toolbar

The QuickCloud toolbar is only available if you configure your PC-DMIS license as a Portable device.

It provides the buttons to complete all the steps from start to finish for working with Pointclouds.

The toolbar provides drop-down button functionality for the Cross Section, Pointcloud Colormap, Auto Feature, and Dimension buttons.

PC-DMIS stores the last-selected option for each button and displays it the next time the software shows the toolbar.

You can add drop-down buttons to any customizable toolbar in PC-DMIS from the View | Toolbars | Customize menu option.

Import from CAD File - Displays an Open dialog box to import any one of the supported part models from your library. To view the available file types, select the Files of Type drop-down list.

CAD Vectors - Displays the CAD Vectors dialog box to view and manipulate surface vectors.

Portable Scanning Widget - Displays the Portable Scanning Widget toolbar. When you connect to a portable device, and the active probe is a laser scanner, PC-DMIS automatically shows the Portable Scanning Widget toolbar.

Pointcloud Data Collection Parameters - Displays the Laser Data Collection Settings dialog box. You can use it to define scan profiles, data filtering, and an exclusion plane for your pointcloud data.

For details, see "Laser Data Collection Settings" in the "Using Pointclouds" chapter in the PC-DMIS Laser documentation.

Select Pointcloud - Provides, by default, the Polygon selection method. Select the vertices of the polygon and then press the End key to close it.

The Select Pointcloud option differs from the use of the pointcloud operator because the software only applies the function and does not add it as a command. To create the command, open the pointcloud operator and choose the Select method.

Pointcloud Operator - Displays the Pointcloud Operator dialog box. You can use it to perform different operations on Pointcloud (COP) commands and other Pointcloud operator commands.

Pointcloud Alignment - Allows you to create Pointcloud (COP) to CAD and COP to COP alignments.

Clean Pointcloud - When you click this button, the CLEAN operation immediately eliminates outlier COP points. The outlier points are based on the default Max distance of the points to the CAD. If the distance of a point is greater than the value of Max distance, the software considers the point an outlier that does not belong to the part. To use this operation, you must have established at least a rough alignment.

For details on the Clean Pointcloud operator, see "CLEAN" in the "Pointcloud Operators" chapter in the PC-MIS Laser documentation.

Cross Section - Opens the Pointcloud Operator dialog box with the CROSS SECTION option selected in the Operator list.

For details on how to create cross section features, see "CROSS SECTION" in the "Pointcloud Operators" chapter in the PC-DMIS Laser documentation.

Mesh - Displays the Mesh Command dialog box. You can use this dialog box to define a Mesh command from pointclouds.

Pointcloud Colormap - Displays the dialog box for the operator shown on the button.

The Pointcloud Colormap toolbar allows you to select between the Surface Colormap, Point Colormap, and Thickness Colormap options.

Surface Colormap - Displays the Pointcloud Operator dialog box with the Surface Colormap operator selected. The SURFACE COLORMAP operation applies a colored shading to the CAD model. PC-DMIS shades the model according to the deviations of the pointcloud compared to the CAD. The Pointcloud Surface Colormap operator uses the colors defined in the Edit Dimension Color dialog box, and the tolerance limits specified in the Upper tolerance and Lower tolerance boxes.

For details, see "SURFACE COLORMAP" in the "Pointcloud Operators" chapter in the PC-DMIS Laser documentation.

You can create multiple surface colormaps in a PC-DMIS measurement routine. However, only one is active. The last applied and created surface colormap, or the last one executed, is always the currently active colormap.

You can also select which colormap is the active one from the Colormaps list box. When you activate a new colormap, PC-DMIS displays its associated scale with tolerance values and any annotations in the Graphic Display window. To select a new color map, click the Colormaps list box and select the colormap from the list of defined Surface or Point Colormap operators:

Point Colormap - Displays the Pointcloud Operator dialog box with the Point Colormap operator selected. The Point Colormap operation evaluates the deviations of the data points contained in a COP command compared to a CAD object.

For details, see "POINT COLORMAP" in the "Pointcloud Operators" chapter in the PC-DMIS Laser documentation.

Thickness Colormap - Displays the Pointcloud Operator dialog box with the Thickness Colormap operator selected. The Thickness Colormap allows you to show and measure the part thickness as a colormap from only the Mesh or Pointcloud (COP) data object. You can also compare the measured thickness to the nominal CAD model thickness.

For details, see "Thickness Colormap" in the "Pointcloud Operators" chapter in the PC-DMIS Laser documentation.

Caliper - The Caliper is a quick-check tool that works similarly to a physical caliper. It provides a local two-point size check on the Pointcloud (COP), Mesh, or COPOPER (such as the COPSELECT, COPCLEAN, or COPFILTER) object. The Caliper shows the measured length along the selected axis or direction.

For details, see "Caliper Overview" in the "Gages" chapter in the PC-DMIS Laser documentation.

Auto Feature - Displays the Auto Feature dialog box for the icon shown on the button. From the dialog box, you can select any of the available feature commands to insert into the measurement routine.

Dimension - Displays the Dimension dialog box for the icon shown on the button. From the dialog box, you can select any of the available dimension commands to insert into the measurement routine.

Edit Custom Report from Other Measurement Routine - Creates a Custom Report from another measurement routine in your current measurement routine.

Insert Custom Report - Inserts a custom report into your measurement routine as with the Insert | Report Command | Custom Report menu function.