Hello everyone. I would like to know if it is possible to use excel (or some program like it) to help quickly write a program to measure cylindrical parts. The parts consist of 9 ODs and IDs that are concentric to one another. Most of the parts I need to measure are somewhat like this and I aim to write the programs as quick as possible in off-line mode. Quickly because my time-frame is limited and off-line because I have a lot of distractions at the office that doesn't help me get focused on completing the programs. So, does anyone have any suggestions to offer me? I have developed simple excel sheets to give me points in the past to help me write programs, but that involves a lot of manual editing of X,Y,Z,I,J,Ks. My initial thought was to find a way to incorporate excel or use copy and paste with pattern. I have used copy and paste with pattern with some success and I have not been able to figure out how to incorporate excel. Can someone 'point me in the right direction' so I can get closer to my goal? Thank you for your time and I would appreciate to hear any ideas that I can 'mull' over. Have a great day! By the way, I do have access to IGS and STP files.
You can either use file read/write commands within PC-Dmis to read in text to variables/assignments, which you can the feed into auto-features (probably the most common approach), however you could also import and xyz file (which is more akin to importing a CAD file consisting simply of points if I remember correctly).
ahh, this is what Tking is trying to explain to me in histogram thread.
You can either use file read/write commands within PC-Dmis to read in text to variables/assignments, which you can the feed into auto-features (probably the most common approach), however you could also import and xyz file (which is more akin to importing a CAD file consisting simply of points if I remember correctly).
ahh, this is what Tking is trying to explain to me in histogram thread.
