Patent ID: 9646425
Date: 2017-05-09
CPC Classifications: G06T

Claim:
1. A system for programming workpiece feature inspection operations for a coordinate measuring machine, the coordinate measuring machine (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 or the stage are movable relative to one another, and a CMM control portion, the system comprising: a computer-aided design (CAD) file processing portion 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: wherein: the system is configured with both of the 3D view and the editable plan representation automatically reflecting results of 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 3D 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 3D view or the editable plan representation of the user interface; and the 3D view and the editable plan representation are both automatically responsive to deleting the at least one workpiece feature in the 3D view or the editable plan representation of the user interface, by automatically deleting the at least one workpiece feature and associated inspection operations in both the 3D view and the editable plan representation.