Feachr Tags are physical visual references that Feachr.it recognizes in the camera view. A tag provides a position and an orientation that you can inspect or use to place feachrs on your workpiece.

This walkthrough uses one Feachr 1 tag placed along the sloping edge of a gauge block. It demonstrates a Line and a Polygon, which starts as a hexagon.

What a single tag gives you

A recognized tag can help you:

• Examine coordinates: select the tag to read its current X and Y.
• Examine an angle: read its orientation in degrees.
• Align geometry: use the tag’s snaps to position and orient a feachr relative to the tag.
• Reference an edge: place the tag’s reference edge against the workpiece edge, then use the corresponding snap to transfer that alignment to a feachr.

A tag supplies the reference you place on the part. For edge alignment, position the physical tag carefully against the edge you want to represent.

Read the tag’s position and angle

Click the recognized Feachr 1 marker to select it. Its readout shows X, Y, and angle; clicking the selected tag opens its popup menu.

In this scene, the readout is approximately X 0.66 in, Y 0.49 in, 300°. Small changes in the last displayed digits are visible between captures. These readings belong to this setup.

Close-up of Feachr 1’s X/Y and angle readout with the Line aligned to the tag.

The angle gives the tag’s direction in the work coordinate system. When its reference edge is aligned with the workpiece edge, it provides a way to examine that edge’s orientation.

What snaps do

Snaps are alignment targets associated with the tag. The snap points appear during the drag. Keep the mouse button held while moving the feachr over the tag, guide it onto the desired snap, then release. The feachr takes the snap’s position and the tag’s orientation. The close-up below was captured with the mouse button still held, so the snap points are visible.

During the drag, blue circular targets appear on and around Feachr 1. The edge target beside the “Feachr 1” label lies on the gauge-block boundary. These blue targets are the snaps; the green guides and dark outline belong to the selected Polygon.

The tag’s center and an edge reference serve different purposes. Centering a Line over the marker places it through the tag; using the edge snap places it along the reference edge beside the gauge block.

Start the drag on the feachr overlay. Clicking the tag itself opens tag controls; clicking an empty part of the camera view can command machine movement.

Align a Line to the gauge-block edge