Measuring Between Objects

You can measure the minimum distance between tags, product origins, ports, tool profiles, object profiles, and robot motion targets (in Teach) to increase accuracy of robot programs.

Selections can be made in the work area when measuring between tags or products. When measuring between ports or profiles, selections can be made from the tree.

Measure Tag is accessible from:

  • The Analysis & Output section of the action bar (described below).
  • The context menu of a tag (right-click a tag in the work area or tree).
  • The Teach panel (see Programming and Analysis Tools in the Related Links section).

See Also
Programming and Analysis Tools
Working with Tags
  1. From the Analysis & Output section of the action bar, click Measure Tag .
    The Measure Tag dialog box appears.
  2. Optional: Select Show Coordinates to view the location of selected objects.
    The Measure Tag dialog box expands to display the Coordinates and Referential of the source and target positions.

    The coordinates shown are determined by selecting a type from the Coordinates display list.

    The position and orientation values of the selected source and target objects are displayed based on the Referential (World, Context, Current Axis, User-selected) selected for each.

  3. Choose a selection method from the Measure Type list.

    The three selection methods provided include:

    • Multiple Measure allows you to perform a series of measurements, where each discrete pair of selected targets creates a measurement between the two selections.
    • Chain Measure creates chained measurements, where each successive measurement uses the last selection of the previous measurement as the source target.
    • Fan Measure creates measurements as a fan, where all the measurements share the same first selection.

    The above measurement types are demonstrated as follows:

  4. Select a source and target object to measure between.
    The coordinates of the selected objects appear in the Measure Tag dialog box, and the calculated Minimum distance appears in both the dialog box and the work area.
  5. Select Show projections to view the projection line in the work area.


    The blue line indicates the minimum distance between the selected objects. The green lines represent the projection lines on the X, Y, and Z axis based on the selected Referential.