Patent ID: 8400633

Claim:
A method of inspecting a test part comprising steps of mounting a test part on a programmable motion stage, generating with the digital display engine a pixilated template pattern representing the test part, identifying a succession of measurement positions and fields of view within the pixilated template pattern as programmed destinations of the motion stage, coupling the pixilated template pattern to the programmable motion stage for concerted movement, automatically moving the test part to a first of the succession of the programmed destinations and projecting a magnified optical image of the test part onto the viewing screen at a common scale with the projected optical image of the pixilated template pattern, decoupling the programmable motion stage from the pixilated template pattern for relatively adjusting the position of the test part on the motion stage at the first programmed destination for comparing the images of the template pattern and test part, and recoupling the programmable motion stage to the pixilated template pattern for automatically moving the test part to a next of the succession of programmed destinations.