About Using Alignment Manager
About Using Alignment Manager
Alignment Manager is a tool for
creating and managing part alignments. Creating and reusing part alignments is
an important part of the digitizing process, especially if you wish to be able
to revisit parts at later dates to collect more information and have that data
align with previously collected data. Being able to re-establish a part
alignment also protects you from losing work if, for example, your digitizer
is inadvertently moved while digitizing a part or you need to move
the part or digitizer to access areas that are not reachable from the current
digitizer position. Alignment Manager makes it possible to create, store and
reuse multiple part alignments.
Alignment Manager provides for the creation and maintenance of
several types of alignments including Datums, Origins and Leap Sets. Alignment
items are presented in a hierarchical tree within the left display pane of Alignment Manager. When any item in the tree is selected with the mouse pointer
information about that item is displayed in the right hand pane.
There are many actions you can
take to manage alignment items. All
items in the Alignment Manager tree have an associated context menu.
Right click on any tree item to display a
list of actions appropriate for the associated item.
To use Alignment Manager
you should familiarize yourself with the following topics:
- Accessing Alignment Manager
- About Alignment Manager Icons
- About Alignment Documents
- About Datums
- About Origins
- About Leap Sets
- About Collecting Data
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