About Alignment Documents

 

Alignment documents allow you to create a variety of alignment objects, manage them, and save them for later reuse. You can create and save multiple alignment documents and choose which to use for your digitizing session. You can also duplicate and transfer alignment documents to other digitizing workstations and archive them as part of your project documentation.

The data persistence afforded by alignment documents makes it possible to more easily start, stop and restart digitizing sessions, especially when using digitizing devices that have persistent internal coordinate systems, such as MicroScribe, Romer and FARO digitizers. With such devices it is possible to completely shut down your system and later restart digitizing by simply reactivating the last datum used as long as the part and digitizer have not been moved between digitizing sessions. Even if your device does not have a reproducible device coordinate system at start-up, you can reuse alignment definitions by simply re-measuring the alignment item you wish to use.

A default alignment document is created when you first start RevWorks containing three default Datum items. You may choose to use any of those items, modify them, delete, or add others to establish the specific alignment characteristics you wish to use for your digitizing session. Alternatively you may choose to load an alternate alignment document or create a new one.

To learn more about Alignment items you should familiarize yourself with the following topics:

1. About Alignment Manager
   

1. About Alignment Manager Icons
   

1. Creating a New Alignment Document
   

1. Opening an Existing Alignment Document
   

1. Saving the Alignment Documents
   

1. Activating and Deactivating the Current Alignment Item
   

1. Setting the Current Alignment Item
   

1. Switching Between Measured Alignment Items
   

1. Creating a New Alignment Item
   

1. About Datums
   

1. About Origins
   

1. About Leap Sets