I started the program in MM, but I want to change to Inch, how can I change the full program, including nominals? I know when creating a new program I have that option. But once the program is already done. Any help will be great
Not quite...the software is written in metric & will program in metric...even if you select to write a program in imperial the background mathematics occur in metric.
Hence all my programs are in metric & then I call out results for imperial only when required.
I'm not so sure that this is correct. If i can remember correctly, i believe that the program is written in units you select at the begining.
If you go 10 decimal places, the error should be about.0002 µm.
In mm, to go away from 5 decimal places, you can do it with assignments
ASSIGN/V1=FORMAT("%3.10f",DIST1.MEAS)
In 32bit, you can write 14 decimal, after only zeros... I didn't check it in 64bit
I hope you will be able to use it tomorow, to give very accurate results to your boss !!!!!!!
If you go 10 decimal places, the error should be about.0002 µm.
If you go to 20 decimal places....lol
I have had nominals not covert properly going from inches to metric and vise versa. If you just started the program, start again in the correct unit. Might save you a lot of headaches.
Just don't ever get the bright idea to open a new program in inches and then open the metric program and copy everything to the new program. It won't convert. Your 14mm hole just becomes a 14" hole.
(not that I would have ever tried that in my younger programing days)
The other day I started a new CMM program in inches using Camio studio.
So, I Calibrated the probe, imported the model, etc..and started by clicking the model for the alignments, when I looked at the print oh boy it's metric!
I thought I needed to start all over but I Just went into the dmis code called "program units" and toggled (In to mm) and viola!
Everything changed to mm including the model...why can't pcdmis do that?
The other day I started a new CMM program in inches using Camio studio. So, I Calibrated the probe, imported the model, etc..and started by clicking the model for the alignments, when I looked at the print oh boy it's metric!
I thought I needed to start all over but I Just went into the dmis code called "program units" and toggled (In to mm) and viola! Everything changed to mm including the model...why can't pcdmis do that?
Interesting, but my 'DMIS MODE' button is greyed out.
I hate to re-open this old thread, but I did discover today the "Edit Data Field Wizard" You can find it in the Wizard toolbar. If you pick "Dimension Location" for Command Type, then under Choose Data Type choose "Unit Type". Under Change From check "use" then in the field type IN then in the Change To field type MM then click on Change, and it will go through the program and change all dimension outputs from IN to MM.
