Rotating a Program

[#2#]

I have written a program (not yet complete) that has a cylindrical part standing on end (oriented ±z). I discovered that I need to measure both ends of the part so I need to lay it down on a v-block (oriented ±y). The program starts out with a manual point and then a manual circle to locate x,y,z. Then it goes dcc and measures a cylinder first thing. After the cylinder there is an alignment that says:

A2         =ALIGNMENT/START,RECALL:A1, LIST= YES
            ALIGNMENT/LEVEL,ZMINUS,DATUMA
            ALIGNMENT/TRANS,XAXIS,DATUMA
            ALIGNMENT/TRANS,YAXIS,DATUMA
            ALIGNMENT/TRANS,ZAXIS,PNT1
            ALIGNMENT/END

I thought I would be able to modify the manual alignment so that x,z was set on the circle and y set on the point (it was x,y on the circle and z on the point before). Then, modify DATUMA, the cylinder, to have a vector of 0,1,0. I thought that would take care of everthing else as long as I answered "NO" to the question "Update commands with new part alignment). It didn't. The vector of everything after this changed to 0,1,0??

Anyone had any sucess rotating a program like this?

[Matthew D. Hoedeman]

I wouldn't have rotated the program. I would have just measured the same features on the part, in the same order, with the part sitting in the new orientation.

[rangerboat72]

That's exactly what I was going to recommend...

[#2#]

That doesn't work because my first two manual features are 2d features and there is not a rotation in the first alignment.

[Matthew D. Hoedeman]

Did you try changing the just the workplane at the beginning of the program and changing the CAD to MACHINE axis?