reporting half the angle of a cone

[Jonathan S]

I want to report half the value of the measured angle of a cone. I assigned a variable to con1.a/2.
How do I send that value to my report as a measured dimension? 3.5mr2
tia

[Matthew D. Hoedeman]

You can:
1) Create a generic feature (cone) and use the con1.a/2 as the angle of the feature

-OR-

2) Depending on which version of Pcdmis you have, you can dimension the variable itself. I am not sure exactly how, booger-boy does this all the time, but remember, you will see thh variable in the EDIT WINDOW and the value in the REPORT WINDOW. You will not see the value in the edit window.

I, myself, would use method 1, since I could then report a CONE with that angle. Use the nominals and actuals from the original cone, except for the angle, then use the variable for the actual cone angle.

[John Kingston]

Here is one I was working on when I saw your message. You'd need to eliminate the 180-, I need that to report what the print callout is.

F1 =feat/cone,rect,out,leng
Theo/0,0,-0.1598,0,0,1,0.053,2.8637,3.155
Actl/0,0,-0.1575,0,0,1,0.053,2.8499,3.1399
Constr/cone,bf,pnt1,pnt2,pnt3,pnt4,pnt5,pnt6,pnt7,pnt8,pn t9,pnt10,pnt11,pnt12,pnt13,pnt14,,
Dim D13= Location Of Cone F1 Units=in ,$
Graph=off Text=off Mult=10.00 Output=both
Ax Nominal +tol -tol Meas Outtol
A 140.0000 0.0000 0.0000 139.8414 0.1586 <
L 0.0530 0.0050 0.0050 0.0530 0.0000 #
End Of Dimension D13
Assign/v2 = Abs(180-f1.a.meas)/2
F2 =generic/none,dependent,rect,out,$
Nom/xyz,0,0,0,$
Meas/xyz,0,0,0,$
Nom/ijk,0,0,1,$
Meas/ijk,0,0,1,$
Radius/0,0,$
Angle/20,v2,$
Distance/0,0
Dim D10= Location Of Plane F2 Units=in ,$
Graph=off Text=off Mult=1.00 Output=both
Ax Nominal +tol -tol Meas Outtol
A 20.0000 0.0000 0.0000 20.0793 0.0793 >
End Of Dimension D10

[Jonathan S]

Cone displays upside down

Since I am only needing the angle value, I didn't input anything in the generic cone fields except the formula for half the angle of my measured cone. That appears to be working fine. It doesn't matter what the other values are as long as it is using con1.a/2 for the angle of the generic cone, right? Another thing I noticed that bothers me. On the graphics screen, the measured cone is displayed upside down even though the points are taken properly. The base of the cone is in the right place in the Z axis, but the top of the cone is shown opposite where it should be (-Z instead of +Z).