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Alignment Review PDF

This document provides instructions for aligning a part using planes, lines, and points as datums in a CAD system. It describes establishing a level plane as the primary datum, rotating to a secondary line datum, and setting origins on a tertiary point datum to fully define the coordinate system. It concludes with steps to verify the alignment by probing at the origin and moving along each axis to check the coordinate directions.

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Alignment Review PDF

This document provides instructions for aligning a part using planes, lines, and points as datums in a CAD system. It describes establishing a level plane as the primary datum, rotating to a secondary line datum, and setting origins on a tertiary point datum to fully define the coordinate system. It concludes with steps to verify the alignment by probing at the origin and moving along each axis to check the coordinate directions.

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pc dmis

pro cad cad++


v2011
Alignment Review
Plane / Line / Point
Alignment Theory Video
(Click button to play).
Example Alignment
Plane
(Datum A)
Line
(Datum B)
Point
(Datum C)

Datum A (Primary Datum): Plane
Datum B (Secondary Datum): Line
Datum C (Tertiary Datum): Point

Alignment Procedure: Level
1. Measure a Plane on Datum A with at least 3 points in a
triangular pattern and then press Done on the jogbox.














2. Open the Alignment Utilities dialog box (Insert > Alignment >
New).

3. Make the dialog selections as shown.

a. Pick the Level
Feature.
b. Select the
vector direction.
c. Push the
Level button.
Alignment Procedure: Rotate
4. Measure a Line on Datum B from left to right and then press
Done on the jogbox..














5. Open the Alignment Utilities dialog box (Insert > Alignment >
New).

6. Make the dialog selections as shown.

a. Pick the Rotate
Feature.
b. Select Rotate to: XPLUS
(the line direction).

c. About: ZPLUS
(the Level direction).
d. Push the
Rotate button.
Alignment Procedure: Origins
7. Measure a Point on Datum C and press Done on the jogbox..














8. Open the Alignment Utilities dialog box (Insert > Alignment >
New).

9. Make the dialog selections as shown.

a. Pick the Point
b. Check X
c. Push Origin d. Pick the Line
e. Check Y
f. Push Origin
g. Pick the Plane
h. Check Z
i. Push Origin
Alignment Verification
10. Open the Probe Readout Window remember the shortcut key.

11. Position the probe (ruby tip) at the approximate location of the origin.
Observe the X, Y and Z values in the Probe Readout Window are
approximately zero.





12. Move the probe along the X axis of the part and observe the X
values in the Probe Readout Window count positive.

13. Move the probe up in Z and observe the Z values in the Probe
Readout Window count positive.

14. The direction of the Y axis follows
the right hand rule as shown.


Ctrl W +
Rotate
Direction
Level
Direction
This third direction is forced mutually
perpendicular to the two previous direction
vectors based on the right hand rule.
pc dmis
pro cad cad++
v2011
End of Alignment Review

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