Converting Hits to Points

You can cause PC-DMIS to receive a stream of points from the interface. To do this, hold down the Take Hit button on your portable device. This lets you quickly scan over a surface and take several points in a short amount of time.

Once PC-DMIS receives the stream of points, it can do one of two things with them:

• Create Individual Point Features. If you are in Point Only mode, or if you have the Vector Point Auto Feature dialog box open, PC-DMIS creates individual point features from this stream of points.

To enter Point Only Mode, click Point Only Mode () from the Probe Mode toolbar.

To access the Vector Point dialog box, select Vector Point () from the Auto Features toolbar.

• Guess the Feature. If you are not in either mode, the points go into the hits buffer, and you see the hit count increment on the status bar. When you finish measuring, the resulting feature depends on your settings and if you are using Guess mode.