## Creating Feature Commands

NC Gage provides you with two ways to create feature commands and add them into your part program for NC Gage to measure during execution.

Creating Feature Commands by Typing Parameter Values

To create feature commands by typing parameters, simply access the appropriate feature command screen, select the Learn Using Values on Screen check box, input all the parameters and properties, and then touch the Learning and Creating A Command soft key. NC Gage inserts the feature command into the part program according your definition.

Creating Feature Commands by Learning a Feature

To create feature commands by "learning" is the default mode when you access a feature command screen. You need to manually jog the probe and with the probe learn positions on the part according to on-screen instructions in order to learn a feature. NC Gage will interpret the probe positions and automatically fill in the parameters on the feature command screen with information from your learned positions. NC Gage will then allow the user to insert the feature command into the part program following this "learning" process.

Your probe must be calibrated prior to adding feature commands (see "Calibrating Probes").

NC Gage allows you to add the following commands to your program:

Measured Features | Constructed Features | Dimensions

- Circle (Bore)

- Circle (Boss)

- Plane

- Point

- Line

- Cylinder (Bore)

- Cylinder (Boss)

- Cone (Inside)

- Cone (Outside)

- Web

- Pocket

- Corner (Inside)

- Corner (Outside)

- Sphere

- Construct Point

- Construct Line

- Construct Circle

- Angle Between (Dimension)

- Distance (Dimension)

Additional Functionality

- Update Work Offset

- Set Coordinate System Rotation

- Feature Frame

Touching one of these soft keys on the Navigation Bar will also access the feature screen. You can touch on links embedded in the images here to quickly jump to the appropriate topic in the help file.

Available Navigation Bar Soft Keys on this Screen:

| Measure Point This soft key opens the ’Measure Point’ screen |  | Measure Bore This soft key opens the ’Measure Bore’ screen.
| Measure Boss This soft key opens the ’Measure Boss’ screen. |  | Measure Web This soft key opens the ’Measure Web’ screen.
| Measure Pocket This soft key opens the ’Measure Pocket’ screen. |  | Measure Corner Outside This soft key opens the ’Corner Outside’ screen.
| Measure Corner Inside This soft key opens the ’Corner Inside’ screen. |  | Measure Plane This soft key opens the ’Measure Plane’ screen.
| Measure Line This soft key opens the ’Measure Line’ screen. |  | Measure Cylinder Bore This soft key opens the ’Measure Cylinder Bore’ screen.
| Measure Cylinder Boss This soft key opens the ’Measure Cylinder Boss’ screen. |  | Measure Cone Inside This soft key enters the ’Measure Cone Inside’ screen.
| Measure Cone Outside This soft key opens the ’Measure Cone Outside’ screen. |  | Measure Sphere This soft key enters the ’Measure Sphere’ screen.
| Construct a Point This soft key opens the 'Construct Point' screen to construct an intersection point, projection point, or mid-point feature out of two line features as inputs. |  | Construct a Line This soft key opens the 'Construct Line' screen.
| Construct a Circle This soft key opens the 'Construct Circle' screen. |  | Angle Between This soft key opens the 'Angle Between' screen allowing you to dimension the angle between two features.
| Distance This soft key opens the 'Distance' screen allowing you to dimension the distance between two features. |  | Update Work Offset This soft key opens the 'Update Work Offset' screen allowing you to update a work offset at the end of a program.
| Write Variable This soft key opens the Write Variable screen and allows the user to write measurement data to a macro variable on the NC control. |  | Set Tool Length There are two methods for updating a tool length: Update Tool Length - Immediate Used as a one-shot setup command to define the tool length. It is an independent setting and will not be part of or show up in a program. Set Tool Length - Program Control

Used to define the tool length that will be part of a program control.

| Set Coordinate System Rotation This soft key opens the 'Set Coordinate System Rotation' screen allowing you to change the system rotation when using the machine outside of NC Gage. |  |

Common Properties:

- Setting Tolerance Values