PC-DMIS Tech Tip: This video shows how to access individual point data after a feature has been created. This is useful for many types of feature constructions and dimensions.
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This video shows how to access individual point data after a feature has been created. This is useful for many types of feature constructions and dimensions. Hey. In this video, I just wanted to show you some really neat things you can do with point data from circles. What I mean by that is in the last few years, they've come up with ways that you can access the individual points of circles quite easily. The first thing I'll do is I'll just create an auto circle. I'll show you what I mean. There are my auto circle, six hits. Normally we would just hit create and there's our circle. But in recent years, they've added this two-points button. This is one way we can access point data after we create the circle. As you can see here we have individual points, as well as a constructed circle all created just by the single toggle switch there, two points. The other thing I wanted to show you is I'll create a circle the normal way, but I won't do the two points. That just gives me my circle four there. What we can do now is we can actually access that point data for a couple of things. We can do, say, a distance dimension. If I pick circle four, you can see I actually have access to the points, or the hits, within circle four. If I wanted to do a distance between those two points again, so you can see them there, and it's actually shown in array brackets. Hit one and hit four in that case, and that will create a distance. Another nice thing you can do with the point data is constructions. I once had a student ask me, "How can I create two different fit reports or fit measurements like a Least Square or a Max inscribed with only measuring the circle once?" The solution is to go to constructed circle. Let's find our circle there. Here's one. Then after the circle is created, we can either just pick the points like that, however many we want, and then we can switch the construction type to best fit, and then change the fitting algorithm. This would be the best fit Max inscribed, which would be just a second measurement without actually physically probing the circle twice. We'll just close that. That's about it. I just wanted to show you kind of a neat way to access point data within circles, and to use those measured points to do two different reports, two different fit types. Just a quick tip. Thanks for joining me, and we'll see you next time.
