PCS Setup Guide
Part Coordinate System Setup Guide
In order to ensure that a complete PCS has been established, Geomet provides a visual PCS Setup Guide to remind you of the missing components of the current PCS under construction. In figure 1, we show the setup guide with all axis and origins still requiring definition.
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figure 1, PCS Setup Guide figure 2, Completed Z Axis
When you establish one of the PCS components, such as the Z primary axis derived from the Orient function on a measured or recalled qualifying feature, the setup guide will reflect the completion by "signing- off" that component with a series of "*******" as shown in figure 2. During the building of a PCS, Geomet maintains an Interim Coordinate System, ICS, which contains the resolved transformations and carries forward the missing components from the MCS, see ICS. 

During the inspection process, additional PCSs may be required. Should you want to create another PCS by starting with the Orient function, the PCS Setup Guide will reappear and further results will be suppressed until the ICS is resolved into a completed PCS. The setup guide will not reappear with basic transformations on a current, completed PCS that results in a new PCS. These commands are:

It should be noted that as long as a PCS is under construction, no results are displayed with each measured feature. When the PCS is completed, the PCS Guide Box will disappear from view and the suppression of results is removed.
 
Controlling the visual appearance of the PCS Setup Guide
The PCS Setup Guide can be enhanced to display animation and have a user defined background color.

In this configuration the PCS Setup Guide is animated with a background color.
 PCS Setup Guide Animate
In this configuration the PCS Setup Guide is animated with no background color.
 PCS Setup Guide Animate
Animating the PCS Setup Guide is useful when building a Coordinate System and requiring positive visual indications. Especially useful when learning the Geomet software.  
Controlling of the animation attributes of the PCS Setup Guide is found in System Options. Activate System Options by pressing the F9 key.

Start typing "Animate" or "Setup Guide" into the Quick Search field. As you type, the listing is filtered as shown. 		System Options
Left-click on the System Options listing:

"Animate PCS Setup Guide"

A selection tool is displayed. Choose the setting you prefer using the drop-down list as shown here.

Press the Ok Button button to set the animation control of the PCS Setup Guide. 		Setup Guide Choices