Scripting Metrology Solutions

Abstract

A practitioner's talk on writing scripts that survive contact with a real metrology department. It starts where the speaker insists you must start – a naming convention carrying filter, feature and location information, without which the advice is to stop – then covers preparation (cheap computing power, disciplined model preparation, file management that scales across scripts, templates, models, reports and resulting data), and the distinction between job-specific scripts with hard-coded information and process-specific scripts driven by triggers. The rest works through script scope, construction, execution and progression, ending on the debugging and review habits that make the next script easier than the last.