Hello!
PC-DMIS 2013 MR1, Optiv Perf. 443
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Basically, I have a cylindrical part in a rotary table. I take a few hits with a touch probe to align, and make some measurements for some notches.
After this I switch to the camera
The rotation of the part is dependent on the rotation vector of a specific hole.
Due to the leveling features available to me, this hole is either on one side or the other of the part.
Using the camera, I measure the location. If the hole is not there (using OnError) it rotates 180° and tries again.
If all goes well it continues measuring and dimensions everything.
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The question I have pertains specifically to the relationship between the notches and the holes;
I start measuring the notches at Rotab Angle 0. But what if the hole is reversed, at 180?
Now the notches and holes that share the same name (notch_XXX_45, hole_xxx_45) are 180° apart!
Hole_xxx_0 and Notch_xxx_180 are at the same angle!
Essentially I want to add in some tidbits to fix that.
I originally had the program where I would measure some stuff on the part with a probe, then switch to the camera to measure the holes,
then switch
back to the probe to measure the notches from the hole alignment, keeping everything together.
Personally I do not like this, I would rather switch probes as little as possible.
We have a rack, so it is not a
huge deal, but I
did spend all day reworking the program to only change once...
Regardless, I was looking for some ideas on how I would go about this
I have all of the necessary features using a naming convention like above.
I would assume I could get the feature name, get all the characters (from right to left) up to the first underscore (which would give me the degree of rotation of that feature)
[I like that idea]
Then if the number is >= 180, subtract 180, or if its <= 135, add 180 to the name.
This would theoretically "flip" the numbers in the name and report them correctly.
To put it together:
If the hole is at 0, it will output hole 0 and notch 0 instead of hole 0 and notch 180
If the hole is at 180, it will output hole 180 and notch 180, instead of hole 180 and notch 0
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Is this possible?