### Locate Shape Tool Advanced Parameters

See the Locate Shape Tool Parameters section for details about locate settings.

- Conformity Tolerance allows you to set custom conformity tolerance. This is the width of the band +/- in pixels within which the contour is allowed to vary and still be found. If part shape varies slightly between parts, increasing conformity tolerance allows it to be located more easily. (Range: 0.667 to 40.0)

- Effort Level provides a mechanism for adjusting the recognition effort for the tool. There are five options available: Lowest, Low, Normal, High, and Exhaustive. This setting has a large impact on the robustness of the tool at the cost of performance. Normal is adequate for most operations.
  [Lowest] improves speed for easily recognizable objects on clean backgrounds with mostly closed contours.
  [Exhaustive] is appropriate for hard-to-recognize objects, consisting of many small features on a cluttered background with mostly discontinuous contours.

- Positioning Accuracy provides a mechanism for adjusting the speed/accuracy tradeoff of the positioning process though a scale that ranges from Fast to Accurate. Options are Fast, Coarse, Normal, Fine, and Accurate. Normal is adequate for most operations.
  [Fast] is useful when accuracy is not as important as performance. This option can be selected for presence/absence applications.
  [Accurate] provides a slight gain in sub-pixel accuracy at the cost of some performance.

- Enable Scale Search enables scale intolerance searching to locate the object if it is larger or smaller than a trained model. Note that enabling Scale Search increases search time similar to enabling rotation search.

- Minimum Scale sets smallest search size of model. A value of 0.5 corresponds to 50%.

- Maximum Scale sets largest search size of model. A value of 2 corresponds to 200%.

- Min % of Model Match is the value for which a possible match will be further analyzed as a final match candidate. This should always be set lower than the Accept Threshold.

- Model Name is the name that AutoVISION automatically assigns to the locate model. This name can also be edited by the user.