Looping Is 3.7mr1 a female version?

[kite005]

I've never tried this with pcdmis but it's pretty easy with calypso, voyager, and measuremind.

I have 9 parts fixtured in a 3 x 3 array. I inserted a loop command for Y 3 times. Just below that I inserted another loop command for 3 times in X. Then I measured the features for the first part and followed with an end loop command. Seemed like a logical thing to try to me. I ran it and it went trough all 9 parts just like I hoped it would.

Then I went back and added distance measurements for my feature within the loop and added statistical commands to dump the data into qc-calc all of which within the loop except the always save stats to file thing which I added right after the machine alignment stuff in the beginning.

I run the program again and it measures all 3 parts in Y and it moves to my move point to clear the fixture, dumps everything into qc-calc and stops.

Oh the move point I added afterwards also after the loop end command.

Did I approach this the right way anyone?

I'm fairly new with pcdmis in that it isn't all that infrequent that I find myself trying something for the first time.

Thanks for any help guys.

I think I'm ready for a beer.

[SABarber]

If you take out the qc-calc dump does it work correctly?
It worked before adding the code, yet does not after. Try removing what you added to see if it works. It narrows down what may be causing this.

[Inspector Gadget]

Kite,
PM me for QC-calc info specific to PC-Dmis. I'd post it, but it's about 6 megs.
It's available from Prolink.

[Rich P]

I do not know qc calc issue but 2 loops need 2 loop/ends

[kite005]

two loop ends

Oh!!
That might just be my problem!!
I will try it tomorrow morning.
I wondered about that also but it didn't look right to me.

I will try that, it makes sense but when I pull up the loop ending command it doesn't ask or say which one you want to end. There is no indication of which one oh does it go in reverse order?

[cmmguy]

None of this should have anything to do with QCCalc. If you have stats(on your dongle) then the only thing you should have to worry about is turning stats on and that's it.

The hangup might be your xstat11 file being corrupted.

[Underspec]

When doing loops I generally use two seperate loops. 1st loop for the X locations ending with the end/loop. Then 2nd loop for Y locations after that, ending with its own end/loop. I wouldn't insert a loop within a loop.

[Ken379128]

You may want to post your code here so the guru's can see it to help you better and welcome to PC DMIS land....you poor soul lol

[Rich P]

In order to do an array type loop(3x3 or 10x10) you need a loop within a loop
it will cycle through to inside loop until finished
then cycle outside loop --cycle inside loop until finished then cycle outside loop again untill outside loop is completed

a cut from a program
you can actually run 1 piece or as many as can be fixtured
you're last alignment before going into the loop is critical

************************************************** ************

COMMENT/OPER,NO,operator sets number of pieces to cycle loop with input
C10 =COMMENT/INPUT,YES,'How many pieces in each column do you wish to inspect?'
C4 =COMMENT/INPUT,YES,'how many times to run each column'
V2 =LOOP/START, ID = YES, NUMBER = C10.INPUT, START = 1, SKIP = ,
OFFSET: XAXIS = 0, YAXIS = 57.5, ZAXIS = 0, ANGLE = 0
V1 =LOOP/START, ID = YES, NUMBER = C4.INPUT, START = 1, SKIP = ,
OFFSET: XAXIS = -51.2, YAXIS = 0, ZAXIS = 0, ANGLE = 0
STATS/ON,DATAPAGE,$
DIRECTORY=C:\DATAPAGE\NSK\3919,$
DIRECTORY=,$
READ=10,WRITE=10,MEMPAGES=4,DIMENSION NAME,CONTROLCALC ON,$
STATS/END
***************************
program code
*********************************
DIM LOC2= LOCATION OF CIRCLE LH_R7 UNITS=MM ,$
GRAPH=OFF TEXT=OFF MULT=1.00 OUTPUT=REPORT
AX NOMINAL MEAS +TOL -TOL DEV OUTTOL
R 7.00 7.03 0.10 0.10 0.03 0.00 -----#---
END OF DIMENSION LOC2
LOOP/END
LOOP/END
MOVE/INCREMENT,0,0,40
************************************************** ******************edited to show beginning and end of looping

[kite005]

winner

And the winner is? RichP

[kite005]

Thanks guys

[Rich P]

it is good to be helpfull an opportunity to give back

and a thanks to all the people out there

I just did a search for something I do not use often and it was Matt H that had the answer from a while back

I owe a lot of my knowledge to the guys on this board

Thanks to everyone who has responded over the years!

[#2#]

And the winner is? RichP

Thanks guys

Does this mean we can talk about beer now?

[tking]

Does this mean we can talk about beer now?

Please, do!

TK

[djayne]

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