Feature Guidance in a Scanbox

[[Br...]]

We have some programs that have long run times and have bad angles for gray value features. We would like to reprogram the parts using feature guidance option, but the problem with using feature guidance is that you must take a bunch of shots first so you can do  you best fit by reference point alignment. 

Can someone explain a good strategy to use feature guidance without having to take a bunch of unnecessary shots? 

[[Ph...]]

Hi Brad,

I am not sure what functionally you mean with “Feature Guidance”, could you describe that?

Another idea would be to use smart teach to create positions for those elements. This works also offline and ensures the correct angles for all elements.

Best regards, Philipp

[[Br...]]

Feature guidance is where you highlight your actual elements (lets say some gray value  elements) and when you position the camera....there are green plus signs when you have optimal camera angle. When the features are computed, the icons go away. So not only do you have an idea of optimal angle, but you know which features you have left to compute. 

[[Ph...]]

Hi Brad,

sorry for the late response. As all other elements the gray value features need an alignment to compute. So, the only way would be to create usable alignment without measurement data, but I think that's not really feasible.

A common workflow is to use smart teach for the first set of measurements and afterwards manually adding missing positions. Is there a reason why you are using the complete manual approach?