Full Digital Readout

Introduction

To assist the visual appearance of a Digital ReadOut at greater distances, Geomet offers a large text Full DRO. The Full DRO position data defaults to the XYZ location in the current Part Coordinate System. However, due to its size, it replaces the drawing on the right portion of the Geomet display.

figure 1, Full DRO

The Full DRO is activated through the Enhance Features page of the System Options, see figure 2, or through the keyboard <Shift + D> keys.

figure 2, System Options→Enhanced Features

figure 3, Full DRO sub menu

The Full DRO can be customized by changing precision places and coordinate system assignments. This is accomplished through the use of a sub menu activated when right clicking on the Full DRO, see figure 3.

The Full DRO sub menu controls the visual state of the Feature Measurement, Editing, Constructions, PCS and Part Programming tool bars. Additional controls include the setting of the display decimal place for both length and angular reporting. The Full DRO can be toggled to report either the Current Part Coordinate System or the Machine Coordinate System by selecting the appropriate function in the sub menu.

To set a zero reference for any axis, toggle the button opposite the axis to control. On first selection, the axis will zero out. Select the button again, and the DRO will remove the zero reference and return to normal reporting.

The Full DRO displays the targeting position when performing a manual vector point. The normal vector point targeting display offers smaller digital text size which has limited use on larger CMMs. The Full DRO will provide the targeting position and because of its larger text size, allows efficient use even on large CMMs.

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