Tracecut data capture module
Setting the parameters for data capture is the first step in producing quality data. To ensure data quality, the system must be capable of capturing data with a range of options. This enables you to set an optimised scanning strategy.
Tracecut data capture options:
- Parallel to X or Y axes - one or two way
- Angular at any angle - one or two way
- Radial in pie slices - optionally limited by box
- Limited by bounding profile
- Auto grid generation from profile
Additional data capture options:
- Pencil Data Capture - Pencil Mode data capture enables you to capture data from a model by moving the Cyclone in hand control. The captured data is in the form of a 3D contour and is produced by tracing along a form with the probe stylus held in your hand just like a pencil.
- True Radial Data Capture - This option offers true radial scanning. The captured data cannot be built into a model but can be machined.
- Multiple Profile Data Capture - This option allows you to capture a series of profiles (XY contours) around the model between two limiting heights. This series of profiles cannot be "built" into a model but may be machined by using the Copy machining options.
- Point to Point Data Capture - This option allows you to scan a single line or series of lines equally spaced between two delimiting lines.
- Varying Z Profile Data Capture - This option allows you to scan around a profile which has a varying Z height
- Normal to Profile Data Capture - This option allows you to scan normal to a profile at a user-specified distance and stepover.
Standard manipulation options:
- Move model in X, Y or Z.
- Convert model from male to female and vice versa
- Mirror model over X and/or Y axis at any position.
- Rotate model about given centre.
- Scale model in each axis individually or all axes simultaneously
- Scale model in three separate zones
- Stretch model with Z-axis shift - this enables you to define a Z-axis zone and stretch it out to any height.
Further manipulation options:
- Use values from new model
- Use the minimum Z value of either model
- Use the maximum Z value of either model
- Overlay existing model with new model
- Embed new model into existing model
Uses for these options include operations such as adding lettering to a design or wrapping a design on to a curved surface.
Split line generation:
- Add split lines from a defined profile
- Add split lines generated from surface normals
- Add split lines defined directly by cursor
Renishaw's Tracecut, the world's leading industrial digitising software, controls the scanning, processes the data and creates tool paths for the NC machining of moulds or dies.