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The Gage Measure tool takes one or more measurements from one or more probes and stores the measurements in a buffer ascociated with the probe(s). This is unlike the analogue read step which does not store the points

Using the Gage Measure Tool

Drag the AnalogueIOCollection object off the ROT onto the "First Probe" section of the inputs page of the Gage Measure tool.  Use the dropdown menu to select the probe.  If several probes will be used select the first probe of the set of probes that will be used, according to the list on the AnalogueIOCollection.  For example, if a machine has 12 probes connected, select probe 6 to use probes 6-12 (assuming the ProbeCount is set to 6 - see below).

Most of the settings for the Gage Measure tool are setup on its parameters page.

ProbeCount

is the number of probs that will take measurements when the tool is run.

ReadCount

is the number of measurements that are to be taken by each probe.


Smoothing

is the number of successive reads that are averaged together. e.g. If smoothing is set to three then a measurement is averaged with one measurement before and one measurement after it.  The larger the smoothing the more the high and.low points will be averaged out and the more gradual sudden changes will appear.

TimeOut

is how long (in milliseconds) the tool will wait for the readings to be taken.

DelayTime

is the amout of time (in milliseconds) the tool will wait between measurements.

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