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Before it reduces the straight to a centerline, VTube-LASER always calculates important metrics that help the user gauge how well the surface data fits to the centerline. Not only does it qualify each cylinder straight fit to a centerline, but the process always gives a calculated diameter and the surface profile of the scan. | Before it reduces the straight to a centerline, VTube-LASER always calculates important metrics that help the user gauge how well the surface data fits to the centerline. Not only does it qualify each cylinder straight fit to a centerline, but the process always gives a calculated diameter and the surface profile of the scan. | ||
| − | * See also [[VTube-LASER Wobble Deviation]] | + | * See also [[VTube-LASER Wobble Deviation]] |
* See also [[VTube-LASER Cylinder Fit Tolerances]] | * See also [[VTube-LASER Cylinder Fit Tolerances]] | ||
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VTube-LASER always automatically reduces each straight scanned to a centerline and then compares measured centerline data with the master. This has been the method used in the tube-fabrication industry for decades because fabricated tube shapes are always defined using centerline geometry. So, the goal of VTube-LASER is to always reduce a measured profile, whether it be cylinder or rectangular, to a centerline for qualification and bender data calculation.
Before it reduces the straight to a centerline, VTube-LASER always calculates important metrics that help the user gauge how well the surface data fits to the centerline. Not only does it qualify each cylinder straight fit to a centerline, but the process always gives a calculated diameter and the surface profile of the scan.
- See also VTube-LASER Wobble Deviation
- See also VTube-LASER Cylinder Fit Tolerances
