CONTROLLER AND CONTROL METHOD FOR DEVICE CONTROLLED BY COMPUTER

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a controller and/or a method for control by a computer which structures an operation environment wherein the addition of a function and the change of a procedure are easy and operations are easily done. SOLUTION: A three-dimensional shape measuring instrument is controlled with commands of a control computer 109 and/or an operation processing computer 108 and the controller and/or the method for control which indicates respective operations of the three-dimensional shape measuring instrument by operating operation buttons on the monitor screen of the operation processing computer 108 has a means and/or a stage where one or more operation button groups consisting of one or more operation buttons are generated as program data and stored in the operation processing computer 108 or an external storage device.