CAD TRANSFORMATION
Selecting Features From The CAD Model
Please load the CMM Quarterly model by clicking on CAD/ Load Model and navigating to the model.
You may use your own model and part if you wish. Make sure your first part is a verily prismatic part. Something square without a lot of curved surfaces to begin with. Just apply the same principles to your part program.
Move the CAD Origin
Our first step after importing the CAD model is to make sure the alignment is in the proper location. The CAD alignment on the model must match the blueprint. In addition, the CAD model must be rotated as the part sits on the CMM table.
In this example the origin must be moved to the corner of the part.
We will need to extract some features off the model to obtain the nominals from the model in order to move the origin to the correct location.
Click on the lower toolbar and select Extract Features.
Pick all three of the planes on the example and create an Intersection (Construction/ Intersection) of the three planes
Open the Intersection
Click on CAD/ Modification/ CAD Model Transformation
