## Operator Mode

Note: Operator Mode is currently functional for Cylinder Gear inspections only.

### Starting Operator Mode

When PC-DMIS GEAR starts, the Gear Programmer Mode main window will be displayed. Select Measure | Operator Mode (or press the F2 key) to display the main window for Operator Mode.

The screen will change from Programmer Mode to Operator Mode as shown below.

Operator Mode screen

### PC-DMIS GEAR - Operator Mode

Now Gear has two different modes – Programmer Mode and Operator Mode:

Operator Mode is designed to make GEAR easier to use. In Operator Mode you can create a shortcut icon in the Measurement/Evaluate Panel. Once this is done, the operator can:

- Double-click the shortcut icon to start a measurement sequence.

- Auto-evaluate the data once the gear is finished being measured and generate a report.

Note: Before using Operator Mode, a gear file should already be created by the programmer in Programmer Mode with all parameters correctly set.

Properties Window – The Property Window is located in the upper-left of the Operator Mode screen. When the operator double-clicks a Gear icon in the Measure/Evaluate Panel, basic parameters of the selected gear are displayed in the Property Window. Property fields in the Property Window that are not grayed out can be changed, such as the Drawing Number, inspector and Machine ID fields as shown in the above image.

Note: Most of the parameters are read-only and cannot be changed by the operator. However, some settings for the report header can be edited, for example, Drawing Number, Inspector Name, Part Number etc.

Measured Data – The Measured Data area is located in the lower-left of the Operator Mode screen and contains all measured data. The user can select to view the measured data of Pitch/Runout, Profile or Helix/Lead.

Measure/Evaluate Panel – The Measure/Evaluate Panel is located in the upper-right of the Operator Mode screen. The user can add a new gear icon, remove an existing icon or edit the parameters of an existing gear icon. The data will be save in a container file with a .ctn extension. A container file is a Gear data file used to store and organize different gear configuration files. The user can create as many container files as needed and within each container file there may be many gear measurement configuration files available. When double-clicking a container file icon, the measurement configuration files will be displayed as gear icons in the Measure/Evaluate Panel location.

The following buttons are available to the user and are located along the top of the Measure/Evaluate Panel:

- Add - Adds a new gear configuration file to the selected container file.

- Remove - Removes the selected gear configuration file from the selected container file.

- Edit - Edit basic information related to the selected gear measurement configuration file.

- Save - Save any changes made to the selected gear measurement configuration file.

- Views - View the gear measurement configuration files as Large Icons, Small Icons, List view, Detail view or Tile view.

- Analyze - Displays an Analysis Report of the current Gear data. The report window provide a number of tools to view and print out.

Double-clicking a gear icon will display a control bar just below the Measure/Evaluate Panel as shown below.

Select any of the operation checkboxes on the left and then click on the Go button on the right to perform the selected operation(s). The actions that can be performed are (from left to right) Align Gear (see Create an Alignment), Measure Gear (see Measure a Gear) and Analyze Gear (see Analyze a Gear). The operator can click on the Pause or Stop buttons during an operation to perform the indicated action or click on the Erase hit button to delete the results of the last measurement.

Container Panel – The container panel is located in the lower-right of the Operator Mode screen. The user can specify a folder on a hard drive where container files can be loaded from and stored to. Each time Gear starts up, it will search this folder to load the container files and display them in this area for the user to access. When the user double-clicks a container icon it will display its contents in this area. Click on the green down arrow located in the upper-right corner of this section to hide the Container Panel.