Measuring a Plane Feature

This procedure describes how to measure a plane feature. A plane feature measure will appear as an activity of the process on the PPR tree.

To measure a plane feature, you must have a product loaded and a plane defined.

Select the parent process or preceding activity for the measure plane activity.
On the Inspection Activities toolbar, select the Measure Plane.
Select the defined plane you wish to measure.

The Measure Plane dialog box appears.
Alter the information in the dialog box as desired.

(A preview of the path appears as you alter the data).

Once you have defined the measurement desired, click on the OK button.

The activity is added to the PPR tree.

Note that creating a measure plane activity also creates a tag list resource (which consists of plane path groups) and plane path applications.

The measured plane appears highlighted on the part geometry.

If you create this activity before you insert a CMM into the resource list of the PPR tree, you will be asked to confirm that you wish to create the activity without a CMM assigned to it. You can assign the CMM to all the activities within the process once you are ready to insert the CMM.

For a circular plane, the measurement path is not a grid, but runs between the circles created by the minimum and maximum diameters specified.

When you select enable material check, the points selected for measurement will all touch the material; none will occur in space.