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## Measuring Features: Introduction

PC-DMIS provides you with two ways to define part features and add them into your part program for PC-DMIS to measure during execution:

Measured Features Method

Whenever you probe hits on the part, PC-DMIS interprets those hits into different features, termed "Measured Features" depending on the number of hits, their vectors, and so forth. The supported Measured Features are: Point, Line, Plane, Circle, Sphere, Cone, Cylinder, Round Slot, and Square Slot

See Inserting Measured Features.

Auto Features Method

If your version of PC-DMIS supports Auto Features, you can easily insert program part features into your program as "Auto Features". In many cases this automatic feature recognition is as simple as single-clicking with your mouse on the appropriate feature in the Graphics Display window. The supported Auto Features are: Vector Point, Surface Point, Edge Point, Angle Point, Corner Point, High Point, Line, Plane, Circle, Ellipse, Notch Slot, Round Slot, Square Slot, Cylinder, Cone, Sphere, and Polygon.

See Inserting Auto Features.