Constructing a Square Slot Feature

Construct Square Slot dialog box

The table below shows the inputs for the slot and the editor definitions.

CONSTRUCT FEATURE TYPE

SYMBOL IN EDIT WINDOW

# OF INPUT FEATURES

FEATURE #1:

FEATURE #2:

COMMENTS

Best Fit Square Slot

BF

5 or more

-

-

Constructs a Best Fit slot using the given inputs. See the Note below for recommended inputs.

Best Fit Recompensate Square Slot

BFRE

5 or more

-

-

Constructs a Best Fit Recompensate slot using the given inputs. See the Note below for recommended inputs.

Projected Square Slot

PROJ

2

Slot

Plane

Constructs a Projected Square Slot onto the plane.

Cast Square Slot

CAST

1

Any

-

Constructs a Square Slot at the centroid of the input feature.

Extracted Square Slot

EXTRACTED_SQUARE_SLOT

1

COP or Mesh

-

Constructs an extracted square slot from the COP or Mesh object at the specified diameter or height.

For Best Fit (BF) or Best Fit Recompensate (BFRE) constructions, while you can use any feature type for your input features, BF and BFRE fit types are typically used with point features or point sets (a scan of points, a feature set with points, or an expression that resolves to an array of points).

If you select inappropriate feature types, PC-DMIS displays this message on the Status bar:

"Cannot construct [feature]. Combination of input features not accepted."

To construct a square slot:

  1. Open the Construct Square Slot dialog box (Insert | Feature | Constructed | Square Slot).

  2. From the Method list, select the method of the constructed ellipse. The available options are:

    3. If you select the Best Fit or the BF Recomp (Best Fit Recomp) method for this feature, PC-DMIS allows you to click the Select All Hits button to create the construction from the individual hits of the input features instead of their centroids.

    To do this:

    1. From the Feature list, select the feature or features that you want to use to create the constructed feature.

    Example showing a selected feature prior to clicking the Select All Hits button

    1. Click the Select All Hits button to display all the components that comprise the selected feature or features.

    Display of items that make up the selected feature are highlighted in the dialog box and in the Graphic Display window

    PC-DMIS displays and highlights all the components of the selected feature (or features) in the Feature list of the dialog box. You can select or de-select any of the features or feature components shown in the list to include or exclude them.

    1. Click the Create button to create the Constructed feature based on the final features and feature components that you selected.

    Constructed feature created based on selected items from the Feature list

     

  3. Using the table above, select the features from the Feature list based on the selected method.

    4. Remember, the order you select the features from the list determines the orientation (CW or CCW) of the Constructed Square Slot. See the examples below.

    Example of a Correct Order of Selection

    Example of an Incorrect Order of Selection

     

  4. Select the In or Out option. For details, see the "In / Out Slot" topic in this documentation.

  5. If you chose one of the best fit methods, select either the 2D or 3D option. For details, see the "2D / 3D Slot" topic in this documentation.

  6. If you want to change the feature theoretical values, select the Feature theoreticals check box and type in the values. For details, see the "Specifying Feature Theoreticals" topic in the PC-DMIS Core documentation.

  7. Click the Create button.

The Edit window command line for a sample slot construction would read:

feature_name=FEAT/SLOT,TOG1,TOG2,TOG3

THEO/x_cord,y_cord,z_cord,i_vec,j_vec,k_vec,width,length

ACTL/x_cord,y_cord,z_cord,i_vec,j_vec,k_vec,width,length

CONSTR/TOG4,TOG5,TOG6,TOG7,feat_1,feat_2, …

The actual report displays in all capital letters.

TOG1 = CARTESIAN or POLAR

TOG2 = OUT or IN

TOG3 = YES or NO

TOG4 = SLOT (or other construction type)

TOG5 = ROUND or SQUARE

TOG6 = BF or BFRE or PROJ

TOG7 = 2D or 3D (This appears only if TOG6 reads BF or BFRE)

More:

In / Out Square Slot

2D / 3D Square Slot

Constructing a Best Fit or Best Fit Recompensate Square Slot

Constructing a Projected Square Slot

Constructing a Cast Square Slot

Constructing an Extracted Square Slot