Numeric 3D Sample Types

Numeric 3D sample types report data which representing a set of 3 floating point numbers representing a point in Three-dimensional (3D) space. The three data values provided are double precision floating point values.

The predefined numeric 3D sample types which comes with the MTConnect server installation includes all numeric 3D sample types defined in MTConnect Standard version 1.4. The complete list of the predefined numeric sample types you can find in topic Supported MTConnect Standard.

Type Name

The name of the sample item type as defined in the MTConnect standard. This name must match exactly the type name in the MTConnect standard. If a type has one or multiple sub types, then multiple entries have to be defined, one for each type/sub type pair.

Sub Type Name

The name of the sample item sub type as defined in the MTConnect standard. This name must match exactly the type name in the MTConnect standard. If no sub type is specified in the MTConnect standard then this field has to be empty.