Current Help System: PC-DMIS Vision (View Core Help)

### Using Shortcut Menus

Two menu shortcuts are available to access commonly used commands and options:

Live View Menu

To access the Live View menu, right click on the Live View tab but not on a target.

Move To Point: When you select the option, it will move to centre the Live View image to the location where the right-click was done.

Move To Feature submenu: Selecting one of the nearest ten features from this submenu will move the center of the Live View image to the center of the selected feature.

Edit Feature submenu: Selecting one of the nearest ten features from this submenu will open the Auto Feature dialog box allowing you to edit the properties for the selected feature. See "The Auto Feature Dialog Box in PC-DMIS Vision".

Note: The features listed under the Move To Feature and Edit Feature submenus are listed in increasing order of distance.

Magnification submenu: This submenu gives another way to affect the magnification of the camera's view of the part. This submenu contains menu options that function just like the shortcut keys discussed in "Changing the Magnification of the Part Image".

Screen Capture To submenu: This submenu lets you save a screen capture of the Live View tab to a file, the Clipboard, or to a PC-DMIS report. The currently selected view (Cad View or Live View) will determine which display is captured.

Setup: This menu option accesses the Live Image Setup dialog box. See “Setting up the Live View”.

Live View Target Menu

To access the Live View Target menu, right click on a target in the Live View.

Target Type submenu: Right-click on a target and change the target type from on of the following: Automatic Target, Manual Target, Gage Target, and Optical Comparator. See "Probe Toolbox: Hit Targets tab" for detailed information on each target type.

Insert Nominal Segment: To add a segment, right-click at the needed location and select the Insert Nominal Segment menu option. This will add a handle to the target that you can drag to match the geometry of the target. For example, there may be a V notch on a straight edge that you need to add to the target.

Delete Nominal Segment: To delete a segment, right-click on the handle select the Delete Nominal Segment menu option. This will remove the selected handle. This is useful to "simplify" the nominal form of a target by removing detail.

Note: Inserting and Deleting Nominal Segments is only used for Profile 2D Features. These options allow you to add or remove segments to a Profile 2D shape in order to more accurately match the feature.

Insert Hit Target: To insert a new Hit Target, right-click at the needed location and select the Insert Hit Target menu option. This is unlike the Insert Hit Target button from the Probe Toolbox that randomly inserts a new Hit Target.

Delete Hit Target: To delete a Hit Target, right-click the needed target and select the Delete Hit Target menu option.

Feature Coverage: This option allows you to quickly change the coverage for a feature. New targets will be created or removed based on the selected percentage of coverage. Notice in the example below that the same feature covered at 100 percent is altered to have many targets that provide a coverage of 50 percent.

Profile 2D - 100% Coverage | Profile 2D - 50% Coverage

Reset: To reset the target areas of a feature, right-click on a target of the needed feature and select the Reset menu option. This will delete the entire previously added target, leaving the single default target.

Focus: This on/off toggle allows for focus prior to target measurement. Each target section has the ability to do a focus prior to doing the edge detection. This is the same as the option found in the "Probe Toolbox: Focus tab".

Edge Selection submenu: Right-click on a target and change the target edge selection method from one of the following: Automatic Target, Manual Target, Gage Target, and Optical Comparator. See "Probe Toolbox: Hit Targets tab" for detailed information.

Point Density submenu: To change the target Point Density right-click on a target and select the needed menu option from the Point Density submenu. See the "Edge Parameter Set" for more information on the available Point Density options.

Test: To test a feature, right-click on a feature and select the Test menu option. See the "Vision Controls - Command Buttons" topic for more information on testing features.