Rotating B inside a loop command

Providing you have done what Chally has said, the code I posted earlier should work with the exception of this line:

ASSIGN/TIPSTR="T1A60B"+VANG

It may need to be modified to this:

ASSIGN/TIPSTR=STR("T1A60B")+VANG

This software continues to astound me with it's complex capabilities.

Thanks I will try it, and I appreciate your help

Yes you can get very complex I am just a grasshopper in a huge field )

You can use variables in every editable field, if you use the correct format. Thanks for the correction, slesholdofthreep.

As another neat example of variable usage, you can use variables in an alignment. You first create the alignment using a stand-in feature, since you cannot select variables in the alignment screen. Then, change your feature name to the name of a variable.

I have a program that recognizes if a part is at a rough or finished state, and modifys the alignment to use a different datum stand-in feature depending on if the datum is present or not.

Also, Rob, take heed of Matt's reply in your other post. If you do the paste with pattern right, it will add in your angles as long as they are created in the probe file.

Yes you can get very complex I am just a grasshopper in a huge field )

...then when you update to a newer version of PC-DMIS, it's like someone is torching your field...

Version 4.2 the fields are starting to burn....
I played with the code some and the B moves to 35deg then back to zero, I couldn't make it go from 35 to 70 to 105 etc. Here is my code
ASSIGN/VANG = 35
ASSIGN/TIPSTR = STR("T1A-90B")+VANG
V1 =LOOP/START, ID = YES, NUMBER = 4, START = 1, SKIP = ,
OFFSET: XAXIS = 0, YAXIS = 0, ZAXIS = 0, ANGLE = 36
CIR A =FEAT/CONTACT/CIRCLE,CARTESIAN,IN,LEAST_SQR
THEO/<0,-1.4987,-1.115>,<0,-1,0>,0.125,0,360
ACTL/<0,-1.4987,-1.115>,<0,-1,0>,0.125,0,360
TARG/<0,-1.4987,-1.115>,<0,-1,0>
ANGLE VEC=<1,0,0>
DIRECTION=CCW
SHOW ADVANCED MEASUREMENT OPTIONS=NO
SHOW_CONTACT_PARAMETERS=YES
NUMHITS=3,DEPTH=0.04,PITCH=0
SAMPLE HITS=0,SPACER=0
AVOIDANCE MOVE=BOTH,DISTANCE=0.65
FIND HOLE=DISABLED,ONERROR=NO,READ POS=NO
SHOWHITS=NO
TIP/TIPSTR, SHANKIJK=-0.9563, -0.2924, 0, ANGLE=-90
LOOP/END
Thank you for your help
Rob

there is nothing in your code to increment VANG

What sles said, in your code - 'VANG' is a constant of 35.

Untested:

Thank you Slesholdofthreep, you confirm my suspicions of incremental move. Thank you VPT the code works on rotating B perfect, but it still going back to B0 when it takes the hits in the holes. Just want to thank you guys for all the brain power and the help I really appreciate it, it so close to being functional I can't stop now so thanks for your patience in my not so savvy code programming.

What kind of head do you have that can have an A angle of -90???

And to answer an earlier question of what if the probe angle goes beyond 180, you can have:



Insert this code right after you are incrementing VANG, before the end of the loop, and this way, it will correctly index the probe when going beyond +180 or -180.