Printing Variables!

[Underspec]

I need to do some calculations and print them out from variables as dimensions or to the report. Never really messed with variables so any help will be appreciated! Thanks ahead of time.

[craiger_ny]

What exactly do you want to do and I'll post some code?

for example:

F2_900_DIA =FEAT/CIRCLE,RECT,IN,LEAST_SQR
            THEO/0,0,1.8,0,0,-1,2.9035
            ACTL/-0.0014,0.0008,1.8013,0,0,1,2.9042
            MEAS/CIRCLE,8,WORKPLANE
            HIT/BASIC,0,1.4517,1.8,0,-1,0,-0.0004,1.4527,1.8011
            HIT/BASIC,1.0265,1.0265,1.8,-0.7071068,-0.7071068,0,1.0273,1.0261,1.8012
            HIT/BASIC,1.4517,0,1.8,-1,0,0,1.4506,0.0006,1.8014
            HIT/BASIC,1.0265,-1.0265,1.8,-0.7071068,0.7071068,0,1.0263,-1.0247,1.8015
            HIT/BASIC,0,-1.4517,1.8,0,1,0,-0.0009,-1.4513,1.8015
            HIT/BASIC,-1.0265,-1.0265,1.8,0.7071068,0.7071068,0,-1.0276,-1.0266,1.8014
            HIT/BASIC,-1.4517,0,1.8,1,0,0,-1.4536,-0.0009,1.8012
            HIT/BASIC,-1.0265,1.0265,1.8,0.7071068,-0.7071068,0,-1.0284,1.0271,1.8011
            ENDMEAS/
            ASSIGN/F2900DIA = F2_900_DIA.D
            COMMENT/REPT,F2900DIA

Will print the variable F2900DIA which is the diameter of the F2_900_DIA feature. But so will:

F2_900_DIA =FEAT/CIRCLE,RECT,IN,LEAST_SQR
            THEO/0,0,1.8,0,0,-1,2.9035
            ACTL/-0.0014,0.0008,1.8013,0,0,1,2.9042
            MEAS/CIRCLE,8,WORKPLANE
            HIT/BASIC,0,1.4517,1.8,0,-1,0,-0.0004,1.4527,1.8011
            HIT/BASIC,1.0265,1.0265,1.8,-0.7071068,-0.7071068,0,1.0273,1.0261,1.8012
            HIT/BASIC,1.4517,0,1.8,-1,0,0,1.4506,0.0006,1.8014
            HIT/BASIC,1.0265,-1.0265,1.8,-0.7071068,0.7071068,0,1.0263,-1.0247,1.8015
            HIT/BASIC,0,-1.4517,1.8,0,1,0,-0.0009,-1.4513,1.8015
            HIT/BASIC,-1.0265,-1.0265,1.8,0.7071068,0.7071068,0,-1.0276,-1.0266,1.8014
            HIT/BASIC,-1.4517,0,1.8,1,0,0,-1.4536,-0.0009,1.8012
            HIT/BASIC,-1.0265,1.0265,1.8,0.7071068,-0.7071068,0,-1.0284,1.0271,1.8011
            ENDMEAS/
            COMMENT/REPT,F2_900_DIA.D

This is the variable assignment:

ASSIGN/F2900DIA = F2_900_DIA.D

Craig

[T Miller]

You can add them to a generic feature and dimension it that way

[craiger_ny]

You can add them to a generic feature and dimension it that way

The possibilities and applications are endless. What do you want to do?

[Underspec]

I need to take a distance and use that to subtract from 7. Then dimension it somehow. I do not wish to have the COMMENT show in the report. I plan on printing to a text file.

[craiger_ny]

Use the "-" operator to subtract the distance in your dimension from 7 then use the file open, and file write commands to write the variable to the text file.

DIM GENERIC_DIMENSION= LOCATION OF POINT GENERIC  UNITS=IN ,$
GRAPH=OFF  TEXT=OFF  MULT=1.00  OUTPUT=BOTH
AX    MEAS   NOMINAL    +TOL     -TOL      DEV    OUTTOL 
X    2.9042   2.9035   0.0050   0.0050   0.0007   0.0000 -----#---
END OF DIMENSION GENERIC_DIMENSION
ASSIGN/VARIABLETOWRITE = 7 - GENERIC_DIMENSION.X.MEAS
FPTR       =FILE/OPEN,C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\Desktop\ExportedPoints.txt,WRITE
V1         =FILE/WRITELINE,FPTR,VARIABLETOWRITE
            FILE/CLOSE,FPTR

I'm not at a CMM right now so I pieced that together from a text file so I'm not possitive that is exactly it but should get you on the right track.

BTW how do you export .prg as a BAS like you said you could do in another post?

Craig

[#2#]

BTW how do you export .prg as a BAS like you said you could do in another post?

Craig

Not sure if this is what he was talking about but... You can go file-export-basic and save a file as a .bas file.

[Underspec]

the value I need is a plane to plane distance which is subtracted from 7. I need it on the report which I am printing to a RTF file.

[Matthew D. Hoedeman]

Here ya go:


DIM D53= 2D DISTANCE FROM POINT B9 TO POINT B8 PAR TO YAXIS, NO_RADIUS UNITS=MM ,$
GRAPH=OFF TEXT=OFF MULT=10.00 OUTPUT=BOTH
AX MEAS NOMINAL +TOL -TOL DEV MAX MIN OUTTOL
M 12.120 12.120 0.025 0.025 0.000 12.120 12.120 0.000 ----#----
ASSIGN/V1 = D53.MEAS
ASSIGN/V2 = 7-V1
GEN_POINT =GENERIC/POINT,DEPENDENT,RECT,$
NOM/XYZ,0,0,-4,$
MEAS/XYZ,0,0,V2,$
NOM/IJK,0,0,1,$
MEAS/IJK,0,0,1
DIM D54= LOCATION OF POINT GEN_POINT UNITS=MM ,$
GRAPH=OFF TEXT=OFF MULT=10.00 OUTPUT=BOTH
AX MEAS NOMINAL +TOL -TOL DEV MAX MIN OUTTOL
Z -5.120 -4.000 1.500 1.500 -1.120 -5.120 -5.120 0.000 -#-------
END OF DIMENSION D54

[T Miller]

ASSIGN/V1 = PLN18.X - PLN17.X
ASSIGN/V2 = 7 - V1
create a generic feature point and put v2 where the x value should be

[Underspec]

Nevermind I used your comment method and works great!! Thanks!