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===[[image:Check.jpg|25px]] NEW: Construct Tube in 3D Space===
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Supravision files are stored on Supravision-based measuring centers.  Customers that migrate to VTube-LASER from Supravision will not lose any of their project data because you can use Supravision project files to setup VTube-LASER.
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Tube shapes can now be constructed by pointing the arm ball probe to the end points and intersection points.<br><br>
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This feature allows you to route a tube in 3D space.
 
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All appropriate values are imported.  (See the Supravision Protocol entry below).
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The feature is used by our customers to construct tube routes in a vehicle's engine compartment or under the car on a lift.
 
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For old-style SV files created by the DOS version of Supravision, we can supply a [[SVFILE]] Converter program to convert the files/folders to newer long filenames.
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New values are included in Supravision file transfers and Supravision Network transfers from benders (imports/exports/bender corrections):
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The new Construct Tube Control (shown above) allows you to point to any location in space to designate an end point or an intersection point.  It also allows you to increase the number of straights/points on-the-fly.  This allows operators to change the number of points at any time during the measurement process.
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===[[image:Check.jpg|25px]] NEW: Recall the BENDER MASTER XYZ to Establish the VTube Master===
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You can now ask the bender to give you the MASTER XYZ data if that data exists on the bender.
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Operators can now increase or decrease the number of straights to measure in the tube on-the-fly if necessary.  The new Decrease/Increase buttons are inserted on the control.
 
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The Bender Setup toolbar on the right has a new button that allows you to RECALL MASTER XYZ from a bender to create the MASTER data in VTube.
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The control also shows the total number of straights being measured. So now the control will read, for example "Straight 1 of 5" - rather than just "Straight 1."
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Before the transfer occurs, VTube will ask you to confirm that you mean to overwrite the MASTER data in VTube.<br><br>
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===[[image:Check.jpg|25px]] ENHANCED: Bender Setup Redesigned===
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===[[image:Check.jpg|25px]] NEW: Show SCANNED or CALCULATED Graphic Data Any Time===
  
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The Bender Setup user interface menu was redesigned.
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===[[image:Check.jpg|25px]] ENHANCED: Negative Lengths or Bend Angles are ZEROED===
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Bender Lengths and angles that calculate negative values are zeroed.
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The Draw Options feature is new to Measure Setup.  You can select these two options if you want the SCANNED or the CALCULATED data to display or not during measurement.  If both features are unchecked, then the tube measurement shows now realtime graphics data during measurement - like other measurement software.  
 
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===[[image:Check.jpg|25px]] ENHANCED: Highlighted Cylinder Fit Box During High Error===
  
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The springback compensation values in the Bender Setup menu are now calculated based on the adjustment value alone.
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The cylinder fit box highlights to YELLOW when it encounters a measurement in the tube that is outside the preprogrammed tolerance for cylinder fit.
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When transferring data from the VTube MASTER LRA to the BENDER SETUP LRA, automatic springback compensation is automatically applied if the springback values are non-zero.</td>
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=Other Pages=
 
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*Back to [[VTube-LASER]]
 
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Latest revision as of 22:14, 21 February 2011

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Revision 1.58

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Vtube-laser 1 58.jpg


Check.jpg NEW: Construct Tube in 3D Space

Tube shapes can now be constructed by pointing the arm ball probe to the end points and intersection points.

This feature allows you to route a tube in 3D space.

The feature is used by our customers to construct tube routes in a vehicle's engine compartment or under the car on a lift.

Vtube-laser 1 58 constructtube control.jpg

Vtube-laser 1 58 constructtube closeup.jpg

Vtube-laser 1 58 constructtube.jpg

The new Construct Tube Control (shown above) allows you to point to any location in space to designate an end point or an intersection point. It also allows you to increase the number of straights/points on-the-fly. This allows operators to change the number of points at any time during the measurement process.



Check.jpg ENHANCED: Measure Tube Control - Decrease / Increase Button

Operators can now increase or decrease the number of straights to measure in the tube on-the-fly if necessary. The new Decrease/Increase buttons are inserted on the control.

The control also shows the total number of straights being measured. So now the control will read, for example "Straight 1 of 5" - rather than just "Straight 1."

Vtube-laser 1 58 measuretube control.jpg



Check.jpg NEW: Show SCANNED or CALCULATED Graphic Data Any Time

VTube now allows operators to show or hide the orange scanned points or the large orange calculated end and intersection points at any time.

Vtube-laser 1 58 scanned calculated display.jpg.



Check.jpg NEW: Auto Display SCANNED and CALCULATED

Vtube-laser 1 58 autodisplay scanned calculated.jpg

The Draw Options feature is new to Measure Setup. You can select these two options if you want the SCANNED or the CALCULATED data to display or not during measurement. If both features are unchecked, then the tube measurement shows now realtime graphics data during measurement - like other measurement software.



Check.jpg ENHANCED: Highlighted Cylinder Fit Box During High Error

Vtube-laser 1 58 cylinderfit highlight.jpg

The cylinder fit box highlights to YELLOW when it encounters a measurement in the tube that is outside the preprogrammed tolerance for cylinder fit.



Check.jpg Issues with this version fixed in next version

  • When using tactile end-measure and laser straight measure in the same tube, the tactile measurements would never be offset by the ball radius. Don't mix tactile and laser measurements in this version or previous versions of VTube.
  • See VTube-LASER v1.59

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