I have a group of points (a plane for example) and I want to project them all to a plane (simplest case == WORKPLANE). Is there some smart way to do it all at once (a.k.a. "the JEFMAN way") or is it only possible with a loop? I haven't found anything yet...
The object of this is to create a secondary tangent plane perpendicular to the primary by the following method:
- measure the secondary plane
- project all points up/down to the primary (WORKPLANE)
- construct a tangent plane from the original plane points + the projected points (guaranteed to be perpendicular to the primary as that is our projection direction)
As a follow-up question: How can I use an ARRAY variable in the same way as .HIT[...] in the construction of a tangent plane?
So I tried to use FCF localization, ISO1101 to check how PC-DMIS works... And had the surprise to see that it doesn't do the job has it should If you construct datums with tangent planes (ISO 5459 until the next !), PC-DMIS (2017R2SP7, didn't tested on 2018) uses the centroid of the secondary datum as reference, instead of the perp construction described here by
AndersI .
I checked how it works by different constructions of alignments, until finding the same result than the FCF...
I think it's a MAJOR PROBLEM... !
So I tried to use FCF localization, ISO1101 to check how PC-DMIS works... And had the surprise to see that it doesn't do the job has it should If you construct datums with tangent planes (ISO 5459 until the next !), PC-DMIS (2017R2SP7, didn't tested on 2018) uses the centroid of the secondary datum as reference, instead of the perp construction described here by
AndersI .
I checked how it works by different constructions of alignments, until finding the same result than the FCF...
I think it's a MAJOR PROBLEM... !