Manual

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Potentialdiscontinuitiesinclude:
•IncompleteFusion/Penetration
•Porosity
•Undercut
•PoorBeadPlacement
•WrongWeldSize
•Convex/ExcessiveReinforcement
•Concave/Underfill
•ExcessSpatter
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When the user selects the green “End Pass” menu
icon, the pass is scored, a snapshot of the weld is
taken,andthepercentagesoftheweldcontainingdis-
continuitiesarecalculated.4B63CA3@6/A7<A3@B32/
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23D713/BB634@=<B=4B63E3:2;/167<3.IfnoUSB
memory stick is present, a red circle with a cross
throughitwillappearontheUSBiconintheupperright
handcornerofthescreen.Thisalsoindicatesthatthe
studentreporthasnotsaved.Allow10secondsafter
selectingthe“EndPass”icontoallowtimeforthefile
tobesaved.Studentreportsarenotsavedinternally
ontheVRTEX
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MOBILE.Ifthefileisnotsavedonthe
USBdeviceatthetimeoftheweldandanotherweldis
made,thepreviouswelddatawillbelost.
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Ontheupperrightofthescreen,ascoreforeachpara-
meteriscalculated.Theclosereachparameteristo
the ideal value, the higher the score will be (out of
100).Thetotalscoreatthebottomofthescoringsec-
tioniscalculatedasanaverageofeachparameter.To
achievethemaximumscore,theweldmustbemade
ontheentirelengthofthecoupon.
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The student report is a PDF file that captures the
graph, discontinuities, bead render, score and other
information about the weld.  See Figure B.47.  This
PDFfile canbeprintedorarchivedfromanothercom-
putertotrackstudentprogress.ExampleofPDFbelow
showsstudentsrecord.
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