### Analysis Object

The Analysis object is used to insert a PC-DMIS analysis window into a label template or into a custom report. Then, in the Report Window, PC-DMIS will display a graphical analysis of dimensions that use a report template using the label template with an analysis object in it.

Report Window Using the Analysis Object

Important: The analysis object will only function with Feature Control Frame dimensions and will not function with Legacy dimensions.

Manipulating the Object

In version 4.1 and above, you can double-click on this object to activate it in the Report window. This lets you manipulate its display in the Report window on the fly. Once activated, you can zoom in or out on the object's graphical display and change its rotation. Double-clicking outside of the object deactivates it. You can also right-click on the object in the Report window to access its the Graphical Analysis Options dialog box described below.

If you need to revert a rotated graphical display in the object back to its original orientation, right-click on the object, and select Restore View from the View menu on the shortcut menu. This restores the orientation of the displayed graphical information in the object to its original vector.

Restore View menu item

The other menu items in the View menu, Flip Horizontal and Flip Vertical flip the horizontal or vertical orientation of the object.

Using with Point Info Boxes in Custom Reports

When adding an Analysis object to a custom report, you can use the following two properties to control what point information is displayed and how it should look by defining the label template to use:

- PointInfoLabel - This property displays a Browse Files dialog box showing the label templates in your Reporting subdirectory. You can use this dialog box to select the label template you would like PC-DMIS to use when creating Point Info boxes inside of the Analysis object. Once selected, the property will display the label name and any Point Info boxes that exist within the Analysis object will be immediately updated.

PC-DMIS will also remember the selected template and will use that for subsequent Analysis objects that are added into the Custom Report editor. The defined template is also stored in the LastUsedPointInfoLabel entry under the Reporting section of the PC-DMIS Settings Editor.

If you do not define any label template in this property, any Point Info boxes used are generated the same as if you had dragged a PointInfo object onto the Custom Report editor. In that case, it does not use a label template, but is created internally.

Some label templates for this you may consider using are: ga_point_info.lbl, ga_point_info2.lbl, and ga_point_info_devonly

To clear this property, open the Browse Files dialog box, remove the filename listed in the File name box, and click Cancel.

- SelectPointInfo - This property displays the Edit Point Info dialog box, allowing you to create Point Info boxes inside the Analysis object's window. This dialog box comes in two different styles depending on whether or not you have a label template defined in the PointInfoLabel property.

If you do not have one defined then the standard Edit Point Info dialog box appears:

Edit Point Info dialog box

If you do have one defined then a slightly different Edit Point Info with Label dialog box appears:

Edit Point Info with Label dialog box

These dialog boxes are similar, but if you have defined a label, you can only choose to hide or display leader lines using the Point info format area. This is because the other items do not apply if you are using a customized label template. For information on the available items in either of these dialog boxes, see the "Inserting Point Info Boxes" topic in the "Inserting Report Commands" section.

Changing Properties

To determine what this object will display you can modify its many properties. You can also use the (Settings Dialog) property to access the Dimension Analysis Options dialog box inside the template editor. This dialog box lets you quickly and easily set many of the analysis object's properties.

Dimension Analysis Options dialog box

This dialog box is nearly identical to the dialog box already discussed in the "Dimension Options" topic in the "Inserting Report Commands" section. See that topic for information on most of the dialog box options.

One exception is the Show Border check box. This option functions only with an Analysis object, not with the Analysis window. Selecting this check box draws a border around the Analysis object.

The available properties for this object are listed below:

Property | Description
(Settings Dialog) | Displays the Graphical Analysis Options dialog box for the selected Analysis object.
ArrowHeads | Same as the Show Arrow Heads check box in the dialog box.
BackColor | Common Properties
BorderShow | Shows or hides the Analysis object's border.
Bottom | Common Properties
CircularityMaxMinDiameters | Same as the Show Best Fit, Max Inscribed, and Min Circumscribed Diameters check box in the dialog box.
Left | Common Properties
MaxColor | Determines the sphere point color for maximum deviations. The default is red (0.0.225).
MaxMin | Same as the Show Max/Min Deviations check box in the dialog box.
MaxMinSize | Determines the diameter of the sphere point that marks the Max/Min points in the Analysis object. The default is 0.
MinColor | Determines the sphere point color for minimum deviations. The default is blue. (255.0.0)
MultShow | Show or hides the arrow multiplier value as text on the Analysis object. So, if set to YES and you have a multiplier value of 10, it would display "MULT=10."
PointInfoLabel | Selects the label template to use for Point Info boxes tied to the Analysis object.
ProfileMeasured | Same as the Show Lines Between Measured Hits check box in the dialog box.
ProfileNominal | Same as the Show Lines Between Nominals check box in the dialog box.
ProfileOptions | Same as selecting one of the option buttons from the Profile Dimensions area in the dialog box.
ProfileTolerances | Same as the Show Tolerance Lines check box in the dialog box.
Right | Common Properties
SelectPointInfo | Displays a dialog box so you can select the point information to display in Point Info boxes in the Analysis object.
Top | Common Properties
TPDiameters | Same as the Show Diameters check box in the dialog box.
Enable | Common Properties
Visible | Common Properties