VTube-LASER Cut Planes

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About Cut Planes

Cut planes allow VTube-LASER to define a plane of a table or other surface in order to cut laser points from being used in measurements to VTube-LASER.

How to Create a Cut Plane

Cut planes are created with four measurements with the ball probe.

STEP 1 In VTube-LASER click on Measure Process, then click on Measure Cut Plane. The Laser scanner will turn off automatically.
STEP 2 Press Probe Setup and Calibration.
STEP 3 Select the correct ball probe then press OK. This step will cause the FARO driver to report back to VTube the new probe. The FARO driver should always remember the last ball probe that you set to "Current Probe" in the pulldown box. This is true even if you shutdown VTube-LASER and the FARO arm.
STEP 4 Press the Close button in the FARO Arm Utilities window.
STEP 5 Observe that the new ball probe selection will appear in the Arm grid.