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

#### Creating a Measured Line

| With the Line icon you can measure the orientation and linearity of a line belonging to a plane aligned with a reference plane, or a line in space.
To create a measured line you must take two hits on the part. Measured Lines and Working Planes When creating a measured line, PC-DMIS expects the hits for the line to be taken at a vector perpendicular to the current working plane. For example, if your current working plane is ZPLUS (with a vector 0,0,1), and you have a block-like part, the hits for the measured line must be on a vertical wall of that part, such as the front or side.

If you then wanted to measure a line feature on the top surface of the part, you would need to switch the working plane to XPLUS, XMINUS, YPLUS, or YMINUS, depending on the direction of the line.