General Settings

Use Tool Tip Help

Default: Checked. When checked, activates the mouse tool tip help. When active, the mouse can be held over a button, image or other control and after small period of rest, a help display will appear to describe the control. NOTE: not all controls in Geomet have tool tip help support.

Use Fast Access Menu

Default: Not Checked. The Fast Access Menu option in Geomet allows the user to navigate stored programs through a fixed menu system. This allows single button access to load and start a part program.

EZ Launch Menu System

Default: Not Checked. Activates the EZ Launch Menu System. This menu system offers single touch access to one or more assigned files when used manually. When used in monitor mode, it receives inspection program instructions from a script file for automated operations.

Enable DCC Motors

Default: Checked on DCC style CMMs. Available on DCC CMMs. When checked, this activates the auto drive systems. When un-checked, the drives systems are disabled and complete manual inspections can take place. The ability to activate this option is controlled by the GeoSecure system and requires authorization from Helmel Engineering.

Enable LDI Line Scanner

Default: Not Checked. Available on DCC CMMs that have been built for the Laser Design Scanning Probe. This option provides laser line scanning for capturing data clouds over contour shapes. This option requires authorization from Helmel Engineering.

Non-Linear Compensation

The use of non- linear compensation is set by the factory or by the technician performing calibration on the CMM. This option involves the mapping of your scales on the X, Y, and Z axes. See Technical Note #2 for enhanced description.

NOTE: Do not uncheck this option. Your CMM calibration tables will be deactivated and the accuracy of your CMM will be affected. The calibration tables are stored in a separate file, "Lerror.dat" which is stored in your Windows folder. If you inadvertently uncheck this option, just reset the check mark.

OptoDyne Laser Calibration

When activated this option will utilize the 3D volumetric calibration developed in cooperation with OptoDyne Inc. This provides compensation not only to the linear characteristics of the CMM, but also corrects for any squareness and parallelism of the CMM superstructure.

NOTE: This option has been removed from Geomet until further notice.

Skip Save Recover

Default: Not Checked. During normal operations, Geomet maintains a recovery file. This file is updated after the completion of any feature. This requires time and resources to open the recovery file, write the file out to the hard drive, then close the file with every feature. During long part inspections or when operating on systems with limited capabilities, this feature can be disabled saving time during the process of building a part inspection.

Enable Fixture Reporting

Default: Not Checked. On the Inspection Header page of the part program, there exists three edit controls where the operator can enter alpha numeric fixture data. Under most conditions, this is not required. When checked, the 3 fixture edit controls will appear, as shown here.

Activate DCC Options

Default: Checked when your CMM Interface is connected to a DCC style CMM. This is a global override flag to activate your DCC capability. Under normal conditions, you do not change this flag.

In certain offline modes, disabling the DCC capabilities are required for simulation tools.

Full Prec. GDT Calculations

Default: Checked. When checked, Geomet performs calculations on tolerance data based on full precision values eliminating rounding errors caused during reporting at a fixed decimal place. For example, if the reporting decimal place is set at 3 places and the reported values were transferred to manual calculations such as a spreadsheet, there can exist a rounding error in excess of 0.00149 in the reporting of a 2D true position value. Geomet, by default Geomet calculates at full decimal precision for greater accuracy of results.

Auto Probe Direction

Enable Auto Sensing

Default: Not Checked. When checked Geomet reconfigures to sense for the current probe direction vector, see Auto-Direction for a complete description. This option is only available on some CMM interfaces that allow time based monitoring of CMM motion.

IP Generation Setup

Enable IP Generation

Default: Not Checked. When checked, this activates a monitoring function that will create a "memory" of your probe motions for each feature. This saved motion becomes a motion map to the current measured feature. This allows the teaching of the full motion path in a part program on a manual CMM to be executed on a DCC CMM.

IP Zone

The IP Zone controls the behavior of the IP Generation tool. As you move the CMM, the IP Generator is monitoring your moves and is looking for direction change. When it acknowledges a direction change greater than the values entered in the value, IP Zone, it inserts an IP into the motion map and restarts the monitoring process. Under most conditions, a IP monitoring zone of 0.25" (6.35mm) is sufficient. On inspection of smaller features, this value should be reduced.

Saved Header Fields

Save Operator Names

Default: Not-Checked. When checked, Geomet adds the operator name to a lookup database used inside the Inspection Header and Program Restart Header.

Save Gage ID Designators

Default: Not Checked. When checked, Geomet adds the Gage ID to a lookup database used inside the Inspection Header and Program Restart Header. This option also supports the SPC database by ensuring uniform Gage ID usage.

Applying your selections

When finished making all your selections, press the <Apply> button and close the System Options by pressing the <Ok> button.