Refining Results

Verity provides flexible tools to help you refine your results and align with the needs of your project.

Getting Started

Occasionally, the Verity Analysis results will require refinement. Many of the fields in the Verity Item Table are adjustable after analysis, as is the As-Built location (if found).

Adjusting the Verity Item Table

If you find that Verity has misclassified or incorrectly fit an item, there are tools in Verity to manually and algorithmically adjust them to be correct based on human input. If the installation status is incorrect, you’ll need to change that first.

Adjusting the Installation Status

If you can see that Verity has misclassified the item’s Installation Status, you can change it using the drop-down in the Installation Status menu bar or in the table cell. Alternatively, you can use hotkeys to change the statuses for a quicker review process. Pressing the X key will change the selected geometry’s Installation Status to Not Found, while pressing the V key will change the Installation Status to Installed. Multiple elements can have their statuses changed at the same time either using the hotkeys or by using the Installation Status button found in the top menu ribbon.

  • If you change from “Installed” or “Uncertain” to any other status, the As-Built geometry will no longer appear in the Verity Viewer, as those statuses indicate no As-Built position can be found.
  • If you change from any other status to “Installed” or “Uncertain”, the As-Built geometry will appear in the Viewer at our best fit location for that item. If our best fit is correct, you can accept the current status and move on. If not, you can manually adjust the fit yourself, or get it close to the correct match and use Refit to fit to the adjacent points.

Adjusting the Tolerance

The Tolerance value can be changed in the table after the Analysis has been completed in case there are particular items you feel should have a different tolerance value applied to them. Heatmaps and the Conformance to Tolerance field will be automatically updated to match.

Adjusting the As-Built Location

To correct the fit, switch to the Split View camera mode. This will give you three additional projected views in which you can manually move the As-Built geometry into place. Only these three projected views support manual interaction with the geometry, and the changes you make will be in the plane of the active view frame.

  • If you have the “As-Built” view frame active, movements will be aligned to the current As-Built’s local frame.
  • If you have the “As-Designed” view frame active, movements will be aligned to the original geometry’s local frame.
  • If you have the “Project Coordinates” view frame active, movements will be aligned to the project’s coordinate system (X,Y,Z).

For more on view frames, refer to the View Frames header.

When your mouse hovers over the As-Built geometry, it will be highlighted and the mouse cursor will change to a 4-way arrow to indicate you can now move the geometry.

Move the As-Built geometry into place with left-click and drag. If you want the movement to be constrained orthogonally to the view frame, you can hold down the CTRL key at any point before or during the move operation, and release it at any point if you don’t want it constrained.

Rotate the As-Built geometry around the center of the geometry by holding down the Shift key before the normal left-click and drag for movement. Verity will base the rotation handle and center of rotation based on where your mouse is located when you first start the rotation. The click location will be the rotation handle, and the center will either be at the center of the opposite edge of the item (if the handle is closest to the edge of the bounding box), or at the center of the item’s bounding box (if you click nearest to the center).

As soon as you let go of the mouse button, the Translation and Rotation metrics will update based on your input. There is no need to recalculate those. Additionally, if the total translation increases beyond the defined tolerance, the item will automatically be switched to “Out Of Tolerance” and vice versa.

If you have manually moved an item, use the Recalculate Heatmap QA Tool to update the heatmap based on the new As-Built location - this is not automatically updated.