GeoTracer

GeoTracer is designed for use on manual CMMs with a manual hard ball probe. The operator would "drag" the probe over the surface and Geomet will capture data points automatically.

To start the GeoTracer, select from the Measure pull down menu, GeoTracer. A setup dialog will appear, see figure below, which prompts you for a distance between points and a maximum of data points per cloud. In this example, we have a distance of .025" between points and 50 points per cloud. Upon accepting, the dialog will disappear and Geomet will prompt you with "Perform surface tracing - 0" and the probe will be disabled so you can move into position.

Once in contact with the surface, press the space bar and begin scanning the surface. Geomet will self trigger a data point every .025" and count up until 50 has been reached, see figure below. At that point a polyline feature will be displayed and the gathering will reset to 0 and continue gathering points. It is not necessary to stop with every 50 data points. When finished, press the space bar again and the gathering process will cease.

Once the operator has completed gathering the data points, they can now be exported through the DXF, ASCII or IGES functions.

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