User`s manual

405-00026-00iNspect Express User’s Manual
34 Rev 1600; 12 July 2010
d. When you hover the cursor over the point or search box, the point and search box turn red
and a message appears telling you to “Right-click to edit.”
e. Right-click on the search box or Tip label. A Tip Properties box opens. (If you right-click on
the Point, a Point Properties box opens.) In this box you can: enable measuring the angle,
rename the measurement, and change the tolerances for recycle and reject.
NOTE The Tip tool is designed to work with uneven or noisy edges, by fitting a line to each
side of the tip point, to construct an angle. If the area of the tip is rounded the angle
reported my seem larger than expected. Increasing the search rectangle may reduce
the effect of the roundness at the tip. If clean edges are available, use the Angle tool.
Tip Properties
Angle the angle (in degrees) formed by the edges at the tip.
• Enable – check this box to report a measurement and pass or fail the part on this measurement;
or clear this box to not report a measurement and not pass or fail the part on this measurement.
• Auto label position – puts the label (Tip1, Tip2) beside the rectangle in the display. Clear the
check box to move the label to another location (or with the Properties box closed, drag the
label).
• Locator – makes the tool follow the Locator, and follow the part. Select a locator (by number)
to follow, or select “X” to disconnect the tool from the locator, or make the tool stay in a fixed
position in the image area.
• Channel – select a color class or select “Brightness” for (monochrome) intensity.
• Direction – “Dark-Light” means a transition from-dark-to-light. “Light-Dark” means a transi-
tion from-light-to-dark.