Enhance Features

System Options

Geomet Versions - pre - 6.66.005.001

NOTE: Many of these options require access codes supplied by Helmel Engineering. It is not recommended that changes be made here without communicating with Helmel Technical Support. Changing some settings can adversely effect the performance or accuracy of your CMM!

 

Default: Checked. When checked, activates the mouse tool tip help. When active, the mouse can be held over a button, image or other control and after small period of rest, a help display will appear to describe the control. NOTE: not all controls in Geomet have tool tip help support.

Default: Not Checked. The Fast Access Menu option in Geomet allows the user to navigate stored programs through a fixed menu system. This allows single button access to load and start a part program.

EZ Launch Menu System

Activates the EZ Launch Menu System. This menu system offers single touch access to one or more assigned files when used manually. When used in monitor mode, it receives inspection program instructions from a script file for automated operations.

Available on DCC CMMs. When checked, this activates the auto drive systems. When un-checked, the drives systems are disabled and complete manual inspections can take place. The ability to activate this option is controlled by the GeoSecure system and requires authorization from Helmel Engineering.

The use of non- linear compensation is set by the factory or by the technician performing calibration on the CMM. This option involves the mapping of your scales on the X, Y, and Z axes. See Technical Note #2 for enhanced description.

NOTE: Do not uncheck this option. Your CMM calibration tables will be deactivated and the accuracy of your CMM will be affected. The calibration tables are stored in a separate file, "Lerror.dat" which is stored in your Windows folder. If you inadvertently uncheck this option, just reset the check mark.

When activated this option will utilize the 3D volumetric calibration developed in cooperation with OptoDyne Inc. This provides compensation not only to the linear characteristics of the CMM, but also corrects for any squareness and parallelism of the CMM superstructure.

Default: Un-Checked. During normal operations, Geomet maintains a recovery file. This file is updated after the completion of any feature. This requires time and resources to open the recovery file, write the file out to the hard drive, then close the file with every feature. During long part runs or when operating on systems with limited capabilities, this feature can be disabled saving time during part program runs.

Default: Not Checked. On the Header page of a part program, there exists three edit controls where the operator can enter alpha numeric fixture data. Under most conditions, this is not required. When checked, the 3 fixture edit controls will appear.

Default: Not Checked. When checked, Geomet reconfigures the display to show a large Digital ReadOut in area reserved for the normal graphics. This provides a large readout of current the position which can be viewed from a great distance such as moving around the CMM. When the full DRO is active, the normal graphics display is disabled, see Full DRO.

Default: Not Checked. When checked Geomet reconfigures to sense for the current probe direction vector, see Auto-Direction for a complete description. This option is only available on some CMM interfaces that allow time based monitoring of CMM motion.

Default: Not Checked. When checked, this activates a monitoring function that will create a "memory" of your probe motions for each feature. This saved motion becomes a motion map to the measured feature. This allows the teaching of the full motion path in a part program on a manual CMM to be executed on a DCC CMM.

Default: Checked. When checked, Geomet performs calculations on tolerance data based on full precision values eliminating rounding errors caused during reporting at a fixed decimal place. For example, if the report decimal place is set at 3 places and the reported values were transferred to manual calculations such as a spreadsheet, there can exist a rounding error in excess of 0.00149 in the reporting of a 2D true position value. Geomet, by default Geomet calculates at full decimal precision for greater accuracy of results.

When finished making all your selections, press the <Apply> button and close the System Options by pressing the <Ok> button.

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