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Alignment to offset holes?

Stephen McMillan
Hi all. First post. Sorry if it's a rookie question.

I want to do a Plan-Circle-Circle alignment.
The first hole is the x0 y0 origin.
The second hole has some given coordinates, say x8.0, y4.0.

I don't want to have to calculate the angle and use the "Offset angle" in the "Rotate to" field.
I also don't want to use an iterative alignment.

Any ideas?

Thanks,
Steve
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  • Hi all
    I don't want to have to calculate the angle and use the "Offset angle" in the "Rotate to" field.


    Why?

    Why? Because PCDMIS doesn't give you the option to modify the alignment by coordinates. I suspect that Steve migrated to PCDMIS from OFI/FLB or MeasureMax. In that environment you can modify the alignment by either an offset angle or by coordinates. In PCDMIS it's by an angle only, so you don't have any choice but to buy yourself a scientific calculator and learn some basic trig functions. You can try the other stuff mentioned by the other postings, but the simplest way is to just go ahead, trig it out and input the angle to at least 8 decimal places. Even though PCDMIS only displays 3 or 5 decimal places, it will accept at least 13 places and truncate off what it doesn't really use.
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  • Hi all
    I don't want to have to calculate the angle and use the "Offset angle" in the "Rotate to" field.


    Why?

    Why? Because PCDMIS doesn't give you the option to modify the alignment by coordinates. I suspect that Steve migrated to PCDMIS from OFI/FLB or MeasureMax. In that environment you can modify the alignment by either an offset angle or by coordinates. In PCDMIS it's by an angle only, so you don't have any choice but to buy yourself a scientific calculator and learn some basic trig functions. You can try the other stuff mentioned by the other postings, but the simplest way is to just go ahead, trig it out and input the angle to at least 8 decimal places. Even though PCDMIS only displays 3 or 5 decimal places, it will accept at least 13 places and truncate off what it doesn't really use.
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