RevWorks FAQ
What do the Communication/Collection icon colors mean in RevWorks?
The communication indicator shows the current status of communications between RevWorks and your digitizer. The bubble will be green when RevWorks is not actively communication with your digitizer to collect feature data. When actively communicating ...
What do the compensation icons mean in RevWorks?
The compensation indicator shows the compensation status of the current action. Compensation applies to certain features when using a ball-tipped probe. Compensation is available when collecting 2D sketch features, most planes, and those measurements ...
What do the Collection Mode icons mean in RevWorks?
The collection mode indicator shows the method of data collection being used. When using single point mode a data point is collected each time you press the collection button on your device or the space bar on the key board. When using scan mode the ...
What do the Datum Icon colors mean?
If the indicator bubble is grey then no datum has been measured and so none is being applied. if the bubble is yellow, the currently selected datum has been previously measured, but is inactive. only when the bubble is green is a measured datum being ...
What do the Location Display icons mean?
The probe icon represents device coordinates, which means that the native coordinate system of the digitizer is being used. The Bolt icon indicates that part coordinates are being used. When you have used a datum to align a part into SOLIDWORKS, you ...
RevWorks seems to be randomly offsetting in the wrong direction.
The value for the Probe Approach Tolerance may be too small. You can change the probe approach tolerance by selecting the options icon on the RevWorks toolbar, a pop-up box will appear and select the options tab, here you can set the probe approach ...
How to change the surface options in RevWorks?
On the RevWorks toolbar, click on the options icon, a pop-up box will appear and select the surface tab. Here you will find different options for your surface.
RevWorks completes my command before I am done collecting data.
If you click on the options icon on the RevWorks toolbar, a pop-up box will appear and under the features tab you can select different commands and change the “maximum points” number to whatever you wish. Once you hit the maximum number, Revworks ...
What is Probe Compensation in RevWorks?
Probe Compensation is simply an offset created by the distance of the center of the probe and the probe radius. The direction of the offset is determined by tracking the motion of the probe until the first point is taken. For this reason, it is ...