## Completing the General Feature Parameters Group for a Hole Feature

Use the options in the General feature parameters group to define the general parameters for a Hole feature.

### Feature Options

CA Feature

DG Feature

### Descriptions

Note: For descriptions of the icons that appear in this group, see Using the Icons.

Item | Description
CA feature area | Long spacer box: Type the distance of the first initial hit and the border of the hole. Short spacer box: Type the distance of the hits for the surrounding plane and the border of the hole. Long depth box: Type the depth for measurements with the shank.

Short depth box: Type the depth for the hits on the circle.

Start angle box: Type the start angle of the hit pattern.

DG feature area | Long spacer box: Type the distance of the first initial hit and the border of the hole. Short spacer box: Type the distance of the hits for the surrounding plane and the border of the hole. Long depth box: Type the depth for measurements with the shank.

Short depth box: Type the depth for the hits on the circle.

Distance radial box: Type the distance from the radial runout.

Find Hole area | Select the appropriate option in the Search hole list:

- Manual: When you select this option, you are asked to move the probe manually to the center of the hole. Then the feature is measured.

- Complete with shank: This option first measures the initial sample hit. The distance from the diameter is defined by the Long spacer setting. Then, the feature becomes centered with the shank measurement. The depth of this measurement is defined by the Long depth setting. Next, the feature is measured with three sample hits in the distance of the Short depth entry to the diameter. The Short depth setting defines the depth of the measurement.

- Direct: Directly measures the feature. The following options appear:

- - Check if stamped check box: This option is an optional additional expansion of the search hole routine. When you select this check box, the machine searches the hole in the vector direction for the selected distance. If the hole is found, it is measured; if it cannot be found, it is skipped.

  - Show error check box: Select this check box if you want to display an error message when the hole is not stamped. The skipped features will appear as comments in reports when PC-DMIS is set up to store information in a format to be viewed textually.

More:

Completing the CAD Selection Group

Completing the Feature Definition Group