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nest digitize
lgrodriguez
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hello:
someone remember the steps for digitize in nest
regards
GH
someone remember the steps for digitize in nest
regards
GH
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Open AM-Explorer "?" for Online Help and search topic such as "digitize" and you will get the steps noted below.
To digitize from a nest
AccuMark lets you digitize from a nest. Rather than setting up a grade rule table before digitizing and referencing the rules from that table, grading is created directly at the Digitizing Workstation when you digitize from a nest.
This procedure provides an example of how to digitize a piece from a nest.
Begin by taping the nested piece to the digitizing table in the orientation in which it was graded and with the grain line horizontal. Avoid placing the piece in the dead zone.
Select Start Piece from the digitizing menu.
Enter the piece name by selecting the appropriate characters on the digitizing menu with the A button and press the delimiter button (*) when you are finished.
Enter the category for the piece by selecting the appropriate characters on the digitizing menu with the A button and press the delimiter button when you are finished.
Enter the piece description by selecting the appropriate characters on the digitizing menu with the A button and press the delimiter button when you are finished.
Select either Numeric Sizes or Alpha Sizes from the digitizing menu.
Use Numeric Sizes if the sizes contain numbers only. For example, 33, 34, 35, or 6, 8, 10.
Use Alpha Sizes if the sizes contain letters (such as S, M, L) or a combination of letters and numbers (such as 2T, 3T, 4T, or 9/10, 11/12, 13/14).
Specify the size line. To do this enter the base size by pressing the appropriate characters on the digitizing cursor and then press the delimiter button.
If you are using Numeric Sizes, also enter the size increment between sizes (1 or 2) and press the delimiter button.
Enter the break sizes from smallest to largest. Press the delimiter button after each size, including the base or sample size.
Digitize the grain line for the piece from left to right. To do this, press the A button at the left side (beginning) of the grain line and then press the A button followed by the delimiter button at the right side (end) of the grain line.
Working clockwise beginning at the lower left corner, digitize the grade points on the base size of the nested piece. To do this, place the cross hairs of the digitizing cursor over a grade point on the base piece and press the A button followed by the B button. Then, go to the smallest size and press the # (pound) button on the corresponding grade point. Continue to press the # button on each corresponding grade point for each size in the nested piece.
Note: If the grade point is also a notch and/or needs to have an attribute applied to it, do not press the # button after the B button. You must first press the appropriate buttons to specify the notch and/or attributes and then press the # button. For example, press ABC2D1# (C2 for notch 2 and D1 for drill hole 1) not AB#C2D1.
Repeat this step for every grade point on the base piece.
Digitize the intermediate points on the base size. To do this, begin at the first intermediate point near the lower left corner of the piece and press the A button. Move around the perimeter of the piece clockwise and continue to press the A button at each intermediate point.
Once you enter the last intermediate point, select Close Piece from the digitizing menu and then press the delimiter button. This draws a straight line from the last digitized point to the first digitized point on the base piece.
Note: If you are working with a mirrored piece, select Mirror Piece, rather than Close Piece and then press the delimiter button. This mirrors the perimeter and grading information for the piece.
Perform one of the following:
If you are through digitizing, select End Input from the digitizing menu.
If you need to digitize another piece, do not select End Input yet. Instead return to step 1 and repeat this procedure until the last piece is digitized, then select End Input.
You're welcome!
But after digitizing all nested pieces you can export grading to rule table
If you need to digitize another piece, do not select End Input yet. Instead return to step 1 and repeat this procedure until the last piece is digitized, then select End Input.
I have 17 pieces in the model that I'm digitizing. I prefer to end input after digitizing each nested piece so I can check my work and correct any errors in the digitize data editor. Can I end input, check my work and still export the grade rule created for all 17 pieces into the same grade rule?
You'll export to same Rule Table, not Same Grade Rule.
The Grade Rule is the property of point. Each grade point wil get grade rule number just grading will be export from piece(s) to rule Table. If any point's grading will match with any grade rule in Table then this point will get same grade rule number.
You can export grading to rule Table piece-by-piece or all pieces at same time. So you export grade from other pieces later...