INSPECTION PROGRAM EDITING ENVIRONMENT INCLUDING INTEGRATED ALIGNMENT PROGRAM PLANNING AND EDITING FEATURES

摘要

A system is provided for programming workpiece feature inspection operations for a coordinate measuring machine (CMM), including a user interface that comprises a workpiece inspection program simulation portion configurable to display a 3-D view of a workpiece; an editing user interface portion comprising an editable plan representation of a current workpiece feature inspection plan for the workpiece; and an editable alignment program plan representation for the workpiece. The system is configured with the editable alignment program plan representation being automatically responsive to editing operations, regardless of whether the editing operations are performed in the 3-D view or the editable plan representation. The editing operations include deleting or adding at least one workpiece feature to or from the editable alignment program plan representation.

主权项

1. A system for programming workpiece feature inspection operations for a coordinate measuring machine (CMM), the CMM including at least one sensor used for determining workpiece feature measurement data, a stage for holding a workpiece wherein at least one of the sensor and the stage are movable relative to one another, and a CMM control portion, the system comprising:
a computer-aided design (CAD) file processor which inputs a workpiece CAD file corresponding to a workpiece and analyzes the file to automatically determine inspectable workpiece features on the workpiece corresponding to a plurality of geometric feature types; and a user interface comprising:
a workpiece inspection program simulation portion configurable to display a 3-D view including at least one of workpiece features on the workpiece and inspection operation representations corresponding to inspection operations to be performed on workpiece features according to a current workpiece feature inspection plan;an editing user interface portion comprising an editable plan representation of the current workpiece feature inspection plan for the workpiece corresponding to the CAD file, the editable plan representation comprising at least one of workpiece features and inspection operation representations; andan editable alignment program plan representation of a current workpiece alignment program plan for the workpiece corresponding to the CAD file, the editable alignment program plan representation including at least one of workpiece features and inspection operation representations used in an alignment program for the workpiece, wherein: the system is configured with both of the 3-D view and the editable plan representation being automatically responsive to editing operations included in a first set of editing operations, regardless of whether the editing operations included in the first set of editing operations are performed in the 3-D view or the editable plan representation of the user interface; the system is configured with the editable alignment program plan representation being automatically responsive to the editing operations included in the first set of editing operations, regardless of whether the editing operations included in the first set of editing operations are performed in the 3-D view or the editable plan representation of the user interface; the first set of editing operations comprises deleting at least one workpiece feature in the 3-D view or the editable plan representation of the user interface when the feature is included in the editable alignment program plan representation; and the editable alignment program plan representation is automatically responsive to deleting the at least one workpiece feature in the 3-D view or the editable plan representation of the user interface, by automatically deleting the at least one workpiece feature and associated inspection operations in the editable alignment program plan representation.