QA Tools
Getting Started
This section will cover the various QA tools inside of Verity. The buttons in the QA Tools panel will let you review, adjust, and approve the results for each item in Verity.
Figure 1: Verity QA Tools
Measurement Tools
Measure Tool
The Measure tool allows you to measure the distance between two clicked-points. The measure tool does not snap to points or geometry and should be used to establish scale to understand the size of elements in Verity, or the distance between elements, points, or geometry in the plane of the view.
This tool is only available when the Verity Viewer is in Split View and the Camera Style is set to Orthographic.
Figure 2: Measure tool
Measure Scan Point Distance
The Measure Scan Point Distance tool allows you to measure between a spot on the As-Built geometry and the points used to fit the geometry. The tool provides a spot measurement that is repeatable and does not rely on a single point as the basis of measurement. Error ranges and number of points used are provided to show the variance within the point data at that location. When active, this mode will highlight the As-Built geometry. The cursor will change to a cross-hair when hovering over the As-Built geometry for picking a measurement point.
Figure 3: Verity Measure Scan Point Distance tool
Distance Between As-Built and As-Designed
The Measure As-Designed Geometry Distance from As-Built Surface tool will take a click point on the As-Built surface and measure the distance from that point to the same point on the As-Designed geometry. This provides a spot-measurement tool between the two identical geometries. The tool reports the linear distance as well as the X, Y, and Z components in project coordinates. When active, this mode will highlight the As-Built geometry, and the cursor will change to a cross-hair for picking a measurement point.
Figure 4: Measure As-Designed Geometry Distance from As-Built Surface.
Review, Refit, Recalculate
Accept Current Status and Active Reviewer
Figure 5: Accept and Reviewer field
The Accept Current Status button places your name, initials, or text of your choice from the Active Reviewer field into the Reviewer field in the Verity Item Table, and changes the Review Status to Reviewed. Alternatively, for a quicker review process you can use the A hotkey to trigger the Accept Current Status button.
If you haven’t filled out the Active Reviewer box in the toolbar before clicking Accept Current Status, a dialog will appear prompting you to type in the reviewer for that session. This will then populate the Active Reviewer field in the menu bar with whatever you type. The information in the Active Reviewer field will then be used from them on for that project.
If you wish to change active reviewers mid-session or for the project, just change the text in the Active Reviewer box in the QA Tools panel. You can also manually change the Reviewer field in the Item Table later by editing it directly.
Reset Fit
For cases where the algorithm or manual adjustments have resulted in an As-Built position that is difficult to manually adjust into place against the points, the “Reset Fit” button will move the As-Built geometry back into alignment with the As-Designed geometry as a clean slate to manually move it into place.
Recalculate Heatmap
If you are using any of the heatmap options, and manually moved the As-Built geometry, you will need to use the Recalculate Heatmap button to update the heatmap based on the new As-Built location. The heatmap is not updated on-the-fly as it can take several seconds to recalculate. Any action that requires the heatmap will automatically trigger a recalculation if the heatmap is out of date.
Refit
Refit reruns the fitting algorithms to optimize the fit to the points you’ve moved the geometry close to. This is most often useful when making manual adjustments and wish for the algorithm to finalize the fit for you.