## Select Tip Toolbar

Select Tip toolbar

The Select Tip toolbar allows you to insert tips (in the case of star probes) and tip angles (in the case of configurations supporting probe head angles and wrist rotation) into your part program on the fly. These can be constrained to allow only existing calibrated tips, or you can insert any new angle supported by your probe hardware, without having to go through the traditional route of accessing the Probe Utilities dialog box and then clicking on the Add Angles button.

For example, suppose you are learning a feature in offline mode, but a fixture holding the part in place won't allow the probe to measure the feature unless you use a different angle. Using this toolbar, you can quickly visualize and define the desired angle, allowing a much simpler workflow than the traditional procedure. Simply type the desired angles (or use the up / down increment arrows). With each change in any of the edit boxes, PC-DMIS dynamically inserts the tip or tip angle into your part program, drawing the probe appropriately in the Graphics Display window.

Toolbar Item | Description
Check box | The check box constrains the toolbar, allowing you to select only calibrated tip angles. With this item selected, if you increment one of the A,B,or C angles, it will choose the closest calibrated tip angle and insert it into the part program.

If you clear this check box, you can define any tip angle increment that is valid for your probe type.

# box | This box represents the tip number and is used for probe types that don't have a rotating head or wrist but have multiple physical tips instead. For example, a star probe has five probe tips, each represented by a tip number. Typing or selecting that number in this box would insert the associated TIP command in the part program.
A, B, C boxes | These angle boxes define the A, B, or C angle for the probe head and wrist. Clicking the increment arrows next increments the angle to the next valid increment.

Movie Demo

The small movie below demonstrates how easy it is to locate and select the proper tip angle for measuring a hole on the front side of the demo block. It shows that you can dynamically modify the top angle by clicking on the A and B edit boxes: