Is anyone here familiar enough with legacy profile to explain the difference between form only and form and location? I think that form and location locks to the origin, but i am not sure how the form only works. I have a customer who wants to use legacy dimensioning and i am not familiar with it.
my final question then is if i have my alignment to A B and C datums, would form only work if my profile is called back to my B and C? my A datum is my Z level and B and C are x rotation and x,y location. I want share a print, but i cant due to security reasons. i could probably post the program though. I dimensioned the profile the way it was called with B and C on the print with exactmeasure and then tried dimensioning the same thing using form only, but non of the best fit options seemed to match my exactmeasure readings.
my final question then is if i have my alignment to A B and C datums, would form only work if my profile is called back to my B and C? my A datum is my Z level and B and C are x rotation and x,y location. I want share a print, but i cant due to security reasons. i could probably post the program though. I dimensioned the profile the way it was called with B and C on the print with exactmeasure and then tried dimensioning the same thing using form only, but non of the best fit options seemed to match my exactmeasure readings.
Profile to B and C means that you now treat B as your primary and C as your secondary, and evaluate the profile to this new DRF. Form only is for NO datum called out in the FCF.
so it isnt even correct to use form only if there are datum callouts? I am writing a new program for a legacy part that has been programmed using form and location for the past 10 years. I was just under the assumption that they either needed to use B and C on exactmeasure or form only if they wanted to use legacy dimensions
That helps a lot. they have been checking this entire part with legacy dimensions for the past 10 years. Not it makes sense why we never seem to correlate. Thanks for your help!
