Measuring a Line Feature

This procedure describes how to measure a line feature. A line feature measure will appear as an activity of the process on the PPR tree.

To measure a line feature, you must have a product loaded and a line defined.

Select the parent process or preceding activity for the measure line activity.
On the Inspection Activities toolbar, click Measure Line.
Select the defined line you wish to measure.

A Measure Line dialog box appears.
Alter the information in the dialog box as desired. (A preview of the path appears as you alter the data).

Once you have defined the measurement desired, select the OK button.

The activity is added to the PPR tree.

Note that creating a measure line activity also creates a tag list resource (which consists of line path groups) and line path applications.

The measured line appears highlighted on the part geometry.

If you create this activity before you insert a CMM into the resource list of the PPR tree, you will be asked to confirm that you wish to create the activity without a CMM assigned to it. You can assign the CMM to all the activities within the process once you are ready to insert the CMM.