Metrolog XG9 Release Notes

Geometrical Tolerances

• Simplified Retrieve using single clicks.

• Ability to Define and retrieve features or tolerances automatically from CAD database.

• Retrieve algorithm improvement: better distribution of points along hole boundaries.

• Max depth parameter in the Retrieve panels for holes.

• Remove unused parameters in the acquisition panel with Leica TScan connection.

• Retrieve Plane: support free form boundary and restrictions.

• Sound assistant in order to know if the optical probe can take scans.

• Metris 3 laser planes display in the 3D View.

• Flush and Gap improvement.

Preview during retrieve	Detailed view after retrieve

• Automatic update of the search/approach/retract distances for circles, arcs, cylinders and spheres, depending on the diameter of the features, the diameter of the ball and the Inner/Outer type.

• Ability to use planes with Point by offset construction.

• Ability to use Mesh   for surface points projection.

• Option to inactivate Twin   errors management (stop/start automatically or not  the second machine in case of error on the first machine).

• New command Run to in order to execute the part program until the selected line.

• Improvement in handling polar coordinates (WKPLAN management).

• OBTAIN and OUTPUT support for defined lines with BND or UNBND. OBTAIN can support strings.

• New command Run to in order to execute the part program until the selected line.

• New user interface for APTSource and Quindos import.

• Improvements of the Catia V5 , UGS NX5   and STEP  converters.

• New Mesh node in the CAD database. A mesh can be created from a cloud of point with facets.

• Improvement of the One Point Alignment: ability to set 1 to 3 offsets to define the origin from current probe positions.

• Full alignment name visible in the Result window thanks to a tool tip.

• Ability to define heads and probes from libraries or from an graphical editor . This instruction can be saved in a GM2 part program.

• Ability to display head and probe in the 3D View. The user can choose to display full head and probes, only the ball or nothing in the 3D View.

Probe / Red cross option	Head or Probe / Red cross option

• Automatic calibration can be done without qualification based on the nominal definition of the head/probe. The user can still qualify the head by measurements.

• Automatic calibration: ability to select the tip the user wants to calibrate.

• Ability to define a probe validity date lower than a day.

• New function Move to Active Feaure in order to send the beam to the current feature.

• Point automatic measurement optimization (Leica only).

• Station management: a station memorize now the radius compensation mode.

• New panel to enter the environmental parameters when the user start the application if the laser tracker doesn't have a meteo station (Leica only).

• Build & Inspect: new mode to see the deviation in the active alignment.

• Sound assistant in order to inform user when beam is lost.

CMM interfaces

• Kreon optical sensor available on Romer Cimcore Infinite arms and Faro arms.
   
• Datapixel and Metris optical sensors available on ME5007 and ME5008.
   
• Faro arm multi connections.

• Zeiss C98 UDP with HSS head.

• Ability to set actions on the back button of the arms (Cancel points, take $ point...).

• LR200 (supported as an optical sensor).

• Laser Tracker Leica: time optimization for stationary points and Field Check support.

• Support rotary table for Wenzel interface.

• Leica  Absolute Tracker.

• Ability to get and set definition alignment, Inner/Outer, and coordinates type from a feature.

• Ability to get the alignments list.

• Ability to display picture.

• Variables declaration improvement.

• Array management improvement.

• Improvement of the Search and Replace command.

• Ability to define statement like DO...UNTIL.

• Ability to define radio buttons.

• Ability to define filter on features.

• Support new commands SDATE, STIME, TRIM, GET_INFO...

• Ability to get the probes list and to get data from probes.

• Ability to get Metrologic controller serial number in the About box.

• Ability to center the 3D View on the feature selected in the features database.

• Ability to start the software with a GM2 or DMIS program as argument: the program will be automatically executed.

• Resizable Open/Save dialogs.

• Gear module.

• Relative record of the CAD files in a working session if the CAD files are in the same directory or in a subdirectory of the working session.

• Feature database: quick access to measure manually or automatically a features selection.

• Feature database: ability to define feature from the actual data.

• Feature database: improvement of the panel to delete feature(s).

• Warning when importing points already existing.

• Automatic display of the Browse panel during execution of a program when it does not find the file to import.

 

 

Functions available since XG 9.002

• DMIS: RMEAS command is now supported for slot measurement.
• Automatic measurement: depth of paths can be defined from any reference plane.

• Add new Unlock/Lock Head command (in order to reset the head after a collision). This command can be added in the stylus/tools changer procedures. This command is only available with Metrologic ME5008 controller.

        

• Automatic surface point measurement: ability to measure surface points to inspect the edge of a surface with relative probing point management (relative to point, line or plane).

• Scanning measurement (SP25, SP600...): add a warning if number of probing points is less than a percentage of the required number of points.

        

• Ability to reset scales on the reference marks with an offset (which can be different on each axis).

        

 

Functions available since XG 9.003

• Improvement of PRD import and support of new export format: export TSV. 
• Improvement of EMB import: management of design variants.
• Integration of new Kreon Toolkit to support the Aquilon system .

 

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