User`s manual

PRE-ALIGNMENT FUNCTIONS
In the efforts to obtain the best possible conditions for a shaft alignment it is
necessary to check whether the shafts are bent, the machine base is warped
or if there is a soft foot condition. Alignment of machines exposed to pipe
strain or thermal growth is easily performed with the Thermal Offset
function.
The Basic Straightness program is primarily designed for
measurement of shaft and base straightness. See the chapter
Basic Straightness measurement.
The Softcheck function makes it possible to check softfoot
condition. See the chapter Softcheck.
The Thermal Offset function provides the possibility to pre-
set known compensation values for thermal growth. Values
required are normally to find in the machine specifications.
Accepted values are feet values, clock values and parallel
offset/angular error. See the chapter Thermal Offset.
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