Dimension Distance on a Loop

[BWilliams]

Hello World of CMM Programmers,

I am new to the game, running PC-Dmis V4.1

I have a part that has several Cones in a line, which I have constructed a loop to check, but when it comes to getting the distance from one to the other only the first Cone appears on my dimension list.

I have Con1[1], Con1[2] and I need to know the distance between the two.

Most of what I have learned has come from this forum, hopefully there is someone out there that can help me out.

[bob mappes]

This is something that I have also looked into...using data from within a loop.

At this time there is no way to get this data other than seeing the individual features reported. Getting distance from CIR1(1) to CIR1(2) is not an option.

The only way to do what you need is to get rid of the looping.
At this time PCDmis looping is more for repeating "parts" rather than "features".

I would love to be able to use looping more to cut down on program length and make my programs cleaner. Like being able to edit one feature in a loop instead of all of the features needing an edit. I know find and replace works, but not in all cases.

hope this helps relieve some headaches
bob

[Matthew D. Hoedeman]

If these cones are all on a single part, use COPY / PASTE WITH PATTERN and have individual features.

[BWilliams]

THANKS A MILLION! I have 384 cones on one part. This will save so much time!

[John Kingston]

THANKS A MILLION! I have 384 cones on one part. This will save so much time!

Does that make you a conehead? ROFLAMHSOH

Matt is right. Go with paste with pattern.

Welcome to our world. Ask questions and be prepared for sarcasm. We like alcohol here too. See OFF-TOPIC side for good laughs!

[SABarber]

Not sure how complicated your program is but could you do something like this?
You can create the DIMENSION and then manually type the NAME[index] of the feature you want. I did it with circles but the method should be about the same.

MODE/DCC
V1 =LOOP/START, ID = YES, NUMBER = 5, START = 1, SKIP = ,
OFFSET: XAXIS = 3, YAXIS = 0, ZAXIS = 0, ANGLE = 0
CIR1 =FEAT/CIRCLE,RECT,IN,LEAST_SQR
THEO/1,3,0,0,0,1,1
ACTL/1,3,0,0,0,1,1
MEAS/CIRCLE,4,WORKPLANE
HIT/BASIC,NORMAL,1.5,3,0,-1,0,0,1.5,3,0,USE THEO = YES
HIT/BASIC,NORMAL,1,3.5,0,0,-1,0,1,3.5,0,USE THEO = YES
HIT/BASIC,NORMAL,0.5,3,0,1,0,0,0.5,3,0,USE THEO = YES
HIT/BASIC,NORMAL,1,2.5,0,0,1,0,1,2.5,0,USE THEO = YES
ENDMEAS/
IF/V1 > 1
DIM DIST1= 2D DISTANCE FROM CIRCLE CIR1[V1-0] TO CIRCLE CIR1[V1-1] (CENTER TO CENTER), NO_RADIUS UNITS=IN ,$
GRAPH=OFF TEXT=OFF MULT=10.00 OUTPUT=BOTH
AX NOMINAL +TOL -TOL MEAS DEV OUTTOL
M 9.0000 0.0100 0.0100 9.0000 0.0000 0.0000 ----#----
END_IF/
LOOP/END

[BWilliams]

I used the copy / paste with patterns, it turned out to be one of the fastest and cleanest programs I done so far.

I was looking into taking the PC-Dmis Advance course through B&S. Would it be worth my time?