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### Moving Bundle Alignment Stations

To move to a new Bundle Alignment station:

1. Measure all the features that can be measured from the first tracker position.

2. Create new station by selecting the Tracker | Station Management menu item of by clicking in the station name of the Tracker Status bar.

3. Click Add to add a new station to the Stations list and then click Close.

Note: Make sure that if using points, the probe compensation has been turned off prior to inserting a bundle alignment command.

4. Select the Insert | Alignment | Bundle menu item to insert a Bundle alignment command. All point reducible features like points, circles and spheres are displayed under Station 1 and can be selected to be part of the bundle alignment.

Bundle Alignment dialog box showing measured features under Station 1

5. Select the next station (created in step 3) to where you will be moving the tracker from the Active Station combo box.

6. Select the check boxes next to the features in the column of the first tracker position that should be used for the bundle alignment at the next station position.

7. Click to add the selected features to the Active Station edit box for the next station.

Features selected from the first station added to the next Active Station

8. Physically move the Tracker station to the new Active Station position.

9. Click Measure and the Execution Mode Options dialog box will guide you through the available bundle measurements for the new Active Station.

Note: The Status bar indicates that the station is not yet oriented in the bundle network.

10. Review the overall results from the "Results Tab" once all necessary features have been measured. The results for the measured features provides source station, orientation, RMS errors and variance.

Results tab after measuring features from the new Active Station

11. If Solution Status reads OK, Clicking OK inserts a bundle alignment command into the part program. The new station is now oriented and available in the network.

Note: If necessary, certain features can be excluded from the actual bundle computation and recomputed on the setup tab.

12. Complete the previous steps if you are moving to the next station position.