Difference between revisions of "Measuring Coping"

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In this example, we designed an adapter in SOLIDWORKS that simulates the joining pipe to the main pipe.

This adapter acts like an additional leg on the end of the tube (see the red section).

Remember that, because VTube calculates diameters on the fly, it never matters if the adapter diameter is the same as the main pipe. VTube-LASER will be able to find the centerline of this geometry - which is exactly what you need to check the coping.

The length of the adapter is not important - but the longer it is, the more accurate the VTube math engine can be in projection to the centerline.

Now, export this model to a STEP file for import into VTube-LASER.

VTube-STEP is included as one of the modes with every VTube-LASER. Switch to STEP mode, then clear the project, then import the STEP model created in the solid modelling program.

Supravision files usually have a filename extension of $$$.

They are text files that contain part setup, XYZ, and LRA data usually.

They were used by Supravision software to save and load Supravision project files - so they contain a lot of data that VTube understands.

(Supravision software was retired a few years ago by ROMER. It was one of the standards in the industry for decades.)