## Using the Probe Toolbox: Introduction

The View | Other Windows | Probe Toolbox menu option displays the Probe Toolbox:

Probe Toolbox for a Contact Probe

In PC-DMIS CMM, you can use this toolbox to perform various probe-related manipulations specific to contact probes. If you view the Probe Toolbox by itself, it contains only two tabs. Additional tabs appear when you view the toolbox embedded within the Auto Feature dialog box:

Probe Toolbox embedded within the Auto Feature dialog box

The probe-related tabs and manipulations for standard contact probe types within the Auto Feature dialog box include the following:

- Position Probe tab – Use this tab to switch between existing configured probes and probe tips, view the current probe's location, access the Probe Readout window, and remove probing hits from the hits buffer.

- Measurement Strategies tab – Use this tab to load in different strategies for that specific Auto Feature type, changing the way the feature executes.

- Hit Targets tab – Use this tab to view the hits used to measure the feature and the XYZ values for each hit.

- Feature Locator tab – Use this tab to define and view feature location instructions.

- Contact Path Properties tab – Use this tab to modify properties that affect the probe path, such as number of hits, depth, hits per level, and so on.

- Contact Sample Hits Properties tab – Use this tab to modify sample hits properties.

- Contact Auto Move Properties tab – Use this tab to modify properties for Auto Move (or Avoidance Move).

- Contact Find Hole Properties tab – Use this tab to modify properties for locating a hole.

More:

Working with Probe Position

Working with Measurement Strategies

Viewing Hit Targets

Providing and Using Feature Locator Instructions

Working with Contact Path Properties

Working with Contact Sample Hits Properties

Working with Contact Auto Move Properties

Working with Contact Find Hole Properties