Difference between revisions of "VTube-LASER v2.2"

Revision 2.2

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The WIREFRAME feature allows you to toggle a wireframe on the surface of the solid models.

The new feature can often give better clarity for straights and arc sections in the tube.

The FARO HD scanners have much increased point cloud densities compared to the older scanners. Because of the new HD capabilities, it's important for VTube to handle the point cloud more carefully by removing duplicate points during scanning.

The new Proximity Filter distances makes VTube more efficient by removing any point that is close to another point already scanned. The value is a linear distance in 3D space. There are values for cylinder scans, end point scans, arc scans, and split bend scans.

The values can be adjusted in the Separation Filter tab menu in Measure Setup.

Moved "Measure Cut Plane" Button to Top

CUT PLANE has become more important as of the release of FARO's v6 HD blue laser scanner. The Cut Plane button has been moved to the top of the Measure Process menu.

Improved Cut Plane Offset Menu

The CUT PLANE OFFSET menu has been improved so that the offset value automatically receives FOCUS when this window is loaded.

Without clicking on the value, you can type the new value immediately, and then press the ENTER key to close the window (a new feature also).

This version includes an important fix to a bug introduced accidentally in 2.1.x that could corrupt the default configuration file when operators saved new defaults.

Previous versions of VTube did not automatically reduce the point count in the stripes scanned for SINGLE DIAMETER measurements. This created a problem with the HD v6 (blue laser) scanner, because it returns so many points in each stripe that it can bog down the VTube math engine without stripe point reduction.

This version solves that problem because single diameter scans will now reduce the point count in the stripe count based on the Measure Setup.

The new "Set Radii to Default" button allows you to set any non-zero radius values to the default.

Also, this feature will now be applied automatically whenever reverse engineering a tube and the bend radius value is zero.

Play the video on the right to see this new feature working.

The graphic viewport now switches between ORBIT mode and PAN mode when you press the mouse wheel button.

Press right click to change back to SELECT mode from either ORBIT or PAN.

In the Path Manager's NEW PATH window, the PATH dialog was not very user friendly compared to the open dialog window, so we changed the folder selection dialog to look like an open file dialog.

It is much easier to view and use than before.

As of this version, when VTube detects a new path from any OPEN or SAVE dialog that is not already in the Path Manager, it will offer to store the new path in the Path Manager with this ADD dialog.

VTube now allows you to save projects in one of over 50 older project file versions for compatibility with older versions of VTube.

The feature is available whenever the Save Dialog appears. Choose the file version in the "Save as type" box.

Whenever VTube senses that you are about to save a project file in an older version, it will warn you with a dialog like the one shown below.

VTube-LASER could easily lockup with a "Windows Out of Resources" error when showing scanned points in this window.

This issue was resolved.

Previous versions of VTube-STEP could sometimes randomly erase collected entities during the centerline calculation.

This issue has been fixed.

The vertical scrollbar in the Measure Process window would not always display. This would prevent users from accessing menu features below the bottom of the window.

This issue has been fixed.

The Set Radii to Default button behaves differently now:

Now the Set Radii to Default button now resets the Measured radii to the default radius value - even if the measured radius values are already non-zero.

VTube can now import the centerline XYZ data from UTE XML files in STEP mode (included with LASER mode.

The data imported is centerline XYZ data, diameter, linear unit used, and radii.