VTube-STEP v2.9.12

Revision 2.9.12 Release Date: August 16, 2018 Build: 5 Back to VTube-STEP Back to VTube-STEP Updates See also VTube-LASER Updates See also to VTube-LASER Download in updates the VTube-STEP Support Page

NEW - NOTE LIST in PART SETUP For an UNLIMITED Number of Notes in a VTube Project

We received a request for more COMMENT and/or NOTE fields in Part Setup for VTube-LASER and VTube-STEP. We added the new UNLIMITED NOTE LIST - which allows for any number of notes per project. All the notes can be exported in the BATCH EXPORT mode in the Report menu. All the notes can be included in a standard report. The notes are stored in the VTube project file.

NEW - LRA POPUP MENU COMMAND SPLITS ONE BEND INTO TWO FOR MORE ACCURATE MEASURING QUALIFICATION and BENDER CORRECTION

Splitting a bend into two adjacent half-bends manually is a bit complex. So we added this command to make it easy. This new "split a bend" command is useful for when a very high bend angle throws its intersection point far from the tube and then creates unreliably high swings in the tangent deviation and bender correction data. After splitting a bend into two adjacent half-bends, you can use the SPLIT BEND measuring feature to scan the inside and outside of the actual bend to overcome this problem. This new command is available in these grids: Incremental LRA Springback Compensated LRA Absolute LRA

Follow these steps to setup VTube-LASER to split a bend then turn on "Split Bend Measuring" 1 - Select the bend to split in an LRA grid. 2 - Right click. 3 - Choose "Split Selected Bend into Two Bends" 4 - In the Bend Setup tab above the XYZ data, click on Split Bend Setup. 5 - In the Split Bend Setup window, set the STRAIGHT with the ZERO straight length to "Split Bend at Apex" (It will equal the BEND number + 1). Watch the data compress and highlight in the LRA grid when you exit the window. VTube-LASER will now be ready to measure with the Split Bend scanning feature. See VTube-LASER Split Bend Feature for details on the Split Bend measuring feature.

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