To Create Auxiliary Commands
When you choose Aux Commands from the AUXILIARY STEP menu, the system displays the Customize dialog box, which enables you to create, modify, and delete the auxiliary probe motions and DMIS commands. At the same time, the system displays the DMIS file for the Auxiliary step, as it currently looks, in the DMIS File window.
When you first enter the Customize dialog box, its upper portion contains only the <end of probe path> line. Creating a new probe motion or DMIS command adds it to the list in the upper portion of the Customize dialog box, above the <end of probe path> line. When you select a probe motion or DMIS command from the Customize dialog box, the system highlights the corresponding DMIS line(s) in the DMIS File window.
The middle portion of the Customize dialog box contains the following buttons:
• Insert—Add a probe motion or DMIS command before the selected item in the list box above. Select the type of entity to insert from the drop-down list to the right of the Insert button, then click Insert.
• Copy—Copy a probe motion or DMIS command and place it on the Clipboard, to insert it at a different control point.
• Paste—Insert the contents of the Clipboard at a specified control point.
• Cut—Remove a probe motion or DMIS command and place it on the Clipboard, to insert it at a different control point.
• Delete—Remove a probe motion or DMIS command.
• Modify—Modify dimensions associated with a probe motion.
• Redefine—Change a probe motion or DMIS command.
• Params—Modify parameters of a probe motion.
• Clipboard—Show the current contents of the Clipboard.
The bottom portion of the Customize dialog box contains the OK and Cancel action buttons.
You can insert the following types of Auxiliary Commands:
• GoTo Point—Select a Measured or Constructed point, or create a datum point, for the probe to go to.
• Go Delta—Specify probe motions in terms of increments along the axes of the reference coordinate system (with respect to the current position of the probe). A Go Delta motion can not be created as a first motion in an Auxiliary step.
• DMIS Command—Supply additional DMIS commands, by typing them or by reading in contents of a file.