Reporting out a scan as Polar Radius and Angle not Cartesian.

[Paul Sarrach]

I want to show the scan details with radius and angle and I took the points in Polar but it only reports out in Cartesian. Can I or am I missing something?

[RIDER]

Have you toggled the feature set from cartesian to polar?

[Paul Sarrach]

Yes Rider that was it. I thanked you on the Dark Side too.

[JEFMAN]

I believe it's not directly possible with PC-DMIS (but I'd ask to it 15 years ago !!!!!). .PR and .PA in arrays could be nice also !
You have to calculate them with assignments.
ASSIGN/SCN_PR=SQRT(DOT(SCN1.HIT[1..SCN1.NUMHITS].XYZ*MPOINT(1,1,0),SCN1.HIT[1..SCN1.NUMHITS].XYZ*MPOINT(1,1,0)))............it's the distance between each hit and the origin in the Z plane.
If you don't write the MPOINT, it will give you the 3D distance.

ASSIGN/V1=RAD2DEG(ATAN(SCN1.HIT[1..SCN1.NUMHITS].Y/SCN1.HIT[1..SCN1.NUMHITS].X))2
ASSIGN/V2=(SCN1.HIT[1..SCN1.NUMHITS].X/ABS(SCN1.HIT[1..SCN1.NUMHITS].X)-1)*(-90)
ASSIGN/V3=(SCN1.HIT[1..SCN1.NUMHITS].Y/ABS(SCN1.HIT[1..SCN1.NUMHITS].Y)-1)*(-180)

ASSIGN/SCN_PA=V1+V2+V3 should give the polar angles between 0 and 360, if I'm not wrong.....

[Paul Sarrach]

JEFMAN, it worked.. I just changed in the EDIT WINDOW the scan from Cartesian to Polar and it worked perfect. values stayed the same

[JEFMAN]

I will take a look tomorrow, I'm waiting for this and maybe it exists for a long time !!!!!!!

[JEFMAN]

More exactly, what I'm looking for is programming a scan in polar coordinates, with a gap between hits in degrees and not in mm...

[vpt.se]

Post it on the Idea Center, JEF!