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Created on: October 7, 2008
Last modified: December 08, 2008
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MultiGage 1.1

PC-DMIS MultiGage is now available!

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Product Overview

Wilcox Associates, Inc. is proud to bring you MultiGage 1.1 as part of the MultiGage product. This product provides you with an intuitive, versitile, and robust solution for measuring parts with the MultiGage Portable Machine. For more information, please contact our Sales department.

Using the MultiGage Software you can:

  • Measure Features
  • Dimension Measured Features
  • Construct Features from Other Features
  • Create and Print Reports
  • Measure using "Gage Mode"

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System Requirements

The MultiGage Measuring System includes:

  • MultiGage portable measuring machine
  • Preconfigured laptop computer
  • Preinstalled MultiGage Software

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Features

PC-DMIS MultiGage 1.1 provides the following:

Easy-to-Use Interface

The MultiGage interface allows you to efficiently accomplish the necessary tasks for measuring your part.

An Easy-to-Use Interface

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Measuring Features ButtonMeasuring Features

MultiGage supports measurement of the following features: Point, Line, Plane, Circle, Cylinder, Cone, Sphere, Round Slot, and Square Slot.

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Constructing Features ButtonConstructing Features

From existing features (already measured or constructed) you can construct new features: Points, Lines, Planes, Circles, and Cylinders

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Dimensioning Features ButtonDimensioning Features

Most MultiGage features have attribute dimensions that are automatically included in the report. Once a feature is measured, the associated dimension(s) are evaluated according to the provided nominal and tolerance values.

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Additional dimensions can be reported by selecting the needed dimension with the features to be evaluated. Dimensions that can be added to your report that are not already inherently added include: Angle, Concentricity, Distance, Parallelism, and Perpendicularity

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Creating Alignments ButtonCreating Alignments

Alignments allow you to align the part coordinate system with the machine coordinate system. The 3-2-1 alignment is one of the available alignments which allows you to use a plane, line and point as inputs. Plane-Line-Line and Plane-Circle-Circle alignments are also available.

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Viewing Reports

The MultiGage Report Viewer allows you to review the results for your measurements.

The MultiGage Report Viewer

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Gage Mode ButtonGage Mode

'Gage Mode' allows you to quickly measure distances in a manner similar to using a height gage.

'Gage Mode' is similar to using a height gage with a few differences:

Height Gage

MultiGage

Measures up and down perpendicular to a surface

Allows you to 'zero' the measurement axis to any measured surface.

Measures in one or at most two axes.

 

Allows you to ‘zero’ to as many as three axes and report measurements to all three axes at one time.

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