For additional information on this shortcut menu, see the "Shortcut Menus in the Report Window" topic from the "Using Shortcut Keys and Shortcut Menus: Introduction" section.

Unilateral Percentage:

Nominal: 0.0000

Measured:0.0028

Deviation:0.0028

Plus Tol:0.0050

Minus Tol:0.0000

Because this deviation is 56% of the tolerance range, it will be displayed if Unilateral Percentage is less than 56%.

Bilateral Upper Percentage:

Nominal:3.0000

Measured:3.0075

Deviation:0.0075

Plus Tol:0.0100

Minus Tol:0.0100

The percentage is calculated using the Lever Rule:

(measured value – lower limit) / (upper limit – lower limit) * 100.

With this data, it would be:

(3.0075-2.9900) / (3.0100-2.9900) * 100. = 87.5%

This dimension will be displayed in the inspection report if the Bilateral Upper Percentage is greater than 87.5%.

Bilateral Lower Percentage:

Nominal: 3.0000

Measured:2.9925

Deviation:0.0075

Plus Tol: 0.0100

Minus Tol:0.0100

The percentage is calculated using the Lever Rule:

(measured value – lower limit) / (upper limit – lower limit) * 100.

With this data, it would be:

(2.9925-2.9900) / (3.0100-2.9900) * 100. = 12.5.%

This dimension will be displayed in the inspection report if the Bilateral Lower Percentage is less than 12.5%.

Sample Report with "Use Text Mode Dimension Reporting" Selected:

Sample Report with "Use Text Mode Dimension Reporting" Not Selected:

#### Edit Text Reporting

Report dialog box

The Report dialog box (available with template reporting) lets you determine the overall information that PC-DMIS will include in the Report window and how it should be displayed. You can access this dialog box in a these ways:

- Right-click on any text-only reporting text or white space at the end of the Report window and then select the Edit Object... menu item when the shortcut menu appears
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- Press SHIFT and then right-click on any label object in the Report window, and then select the Edit Object... menu item.

The following check boxes let you show or hide various items:

Show Features | This option displays all feature measurements in your part program. If you are using the default report template, textonly.rtp, and your part program measures a feature with more than the minimum number of points, it also displays a form plot of the feature.
Show Alignments | This option shows alignment changes as they occur during the part program. It will display all alignment changes that occur in the dimension or feature lists.
Show Comments | This option shows any comments that have been added to the part program. (See "Inserting Programmer Comments" in the "Inserting Report Commands" section for additional information.)
Show Header / Footer | This option displays a header and footer in your report by applying the label template defined in the File Header rule of the Rule Tree Editor. By default this is the FILE_HEADER.LBL label template that ships with PC-DMIS.
Show Screen Captures | This option displays any graphics related to `DISPLAY/METAFILE` and `ANALYSISVIEW` commands in the report. (See "Using Screen Captures of the Graphics Display Window" in the "Editing the CAD Display" section.)

The Dimensions area allows you to control the display of dimensions in your reports. To display dimensions, select the Show check box. Once selected, the other items in this area become available for selection. These include:

All | Selecting this option acts just as if you had selected both the Out of Tolerance Only and the Dimensions Outside Limits options.
Out of Tolerance Only | If this option is marked, PC-DMIS will only show the out of tolerance dimensions. ("Show Dimensions" must be ON.) This option is only available when you select Show Dimensions and deselect Show Dimensions Outside Limits.
Dimensions Outside Limits | If you select this option, PC-DMIS will only show the dimensions that lie outside the percentage of the tolerance zone. When you select the Show Dimensions Outside Limits check box, the tolerance percentages will become editable, allowing one percentage for unilateral tolerances and an upper and lower percentage for bilateral tolerances.

The tolerance zone can be considered as a range between 0 and 100 percent (similar to how dimension colors are applied to tolerance zone regions or how the colored bar graphs are drawn at the end of dimensions). The lower limit (nominal - minus tol) corresponds to 0% and the upper limit (nominal + plus tol) corresponds to 100%. Consider the following chart where A, on the center of the chart, represents the nominal value:

Chart

Dimensions that have deviations outside the tolerance zone will either be less than zero or greater than one hundred percent.

For a unilateral dimension (like roundness, which only has a plus tolerance), the zero deviations are at zero percent, and out of tolerance is anything larger than one hundred percent.

Unilateral Example

For a bilateral dimension (like distance, which has both a plus and minus tolerance), the zero deviations are somewhere in the middle. If the tolerances are equal, the zero deviations will be at the fifty percent position.

B ilateral Upper Example

B ilateral Lower Example

Use Text Mode Dimension Reporting | This check box determines whether PC-DMIS uses formatted text (selected) or uses a graphics table (not selected) for displaying the dimensions. Important: If PC-DMIS cannot find a specified report template, it will end up using a template named "default.rtp". This generic template provides you with a basic text-based report. Since default.rtp only supports text-based reporting, deselecting this check box will do nothing