Patent ID: 6947867
Filing Date: 2005-09-20
Classification: G01B,G06T

Abstract:
1. A display system for a measuring system which determines the positions in space of predetermined points on an object and measures distances between points of selected pairs of such points, the display system comprising: a storage device storing a library of information relating to objects to be measured including standard distances between points of predetermined pairs of points on such objects and/or coordinates of points which can be used to calculate such standard distances, a display device, and a processor operating under stored program control and coupled to the storage device and to the display device and comparing measured distances between points of selected pairs of points on an object with corresponding standard distances, the program including a display routine for causing display of a graphical representation of the object being measured and predetermined points thereon and, for each selected pair of such points, a line between the points, the routine causing a display for each such line of an indication as to whether or not the measured distance represented by the line is within predetermined tolerance limits for the corresponding standard distance.