Revision 2.9.17

Release Date: Unreleased
Current Build: 5

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VTube-LASER now handles point clouds in storage we call "buckets." This allows you to scan anything into VTube-LASER - not just tubes.

With this feature:

• Scan point clouds into list of point cloud buckets using the LASER scanner.
• Turn buckets of points on our off.
• Select points on the screen then press DELETE to delete them from the buckets.
• Measure the distance between any two points.
• Transfer the point clouds into SOLIDWORKS.
• Transfer the point clouds into an ASCII file for use in any other program.
• Point clouds are stored and recalled to/from the VTube-LASER project file.
• Point cloud changes are stored in the UNDO memory. If you delete the wrong set of points - just press UNDO.
• Set the color of each bucket of point clouds.

If VTube-LASER starts a measure setup with ZERO straights, then it automatically resets to the MASTER straight count.

Through some experimentation, any point count above 50 per stripe is not helpful in VTube-LASER. For example, as you approach 1000 points per stripe, it slows the math engine significantly and actually causes more Cylinder Fit problems than it solves.

VTube-LASER will now allow up to 50 points per stripe for measuring cylinders - never more.

The Split Bend corrections (for a 180-degree bend) were being applied in Bender Setup in the uncompressed mode - which means that only half the correction was being applied to 180-degree bends.

Also, the wrong number of rows was sent to Bender Setup - which meant that correction data was not properly aligned with the data at the bender. For example, for a single 180-degree bend part, there should only be two correction rows. However, VTube was sending three rows of data for two 90-degree bends.

This has been fixed in this version.

See the resulting correction data grid in the Bender Setup screen below the image.