Assignment Shortcuts and their meanings?

You can download this, then look at the "using variable" chapter, even if it's in english...
ftp://ftp.wilcoxassoc.com/docs/v2011manual/eng_pcdmis_v2011_core_manual_pdf.zip

You can do a lot of assignments, calculations, coordinates retrieval, statements...

ASSIGN/V1=5 just gives "5" to V1 value
ASSIGN/V2=ARRAY(1,3,5,7) creates an array of 4 values in which ASSIGN/V3=V2[2] gives the second value of V2 (here 3)

If you want to create an array of odd numbers, you can do it in a loop like :
ASSIGN/V1=1
ASSIGN/V2=1
DO/
ASSIGN/V3[V2]=V1
ASSIGN/V1=V1+2
ASSIGN/V2=V2+1
UNTIL/V2>100

This array could be used to choose only one hit out of two in a feature :
ASSIGN/V1=1
ASSIGN/V2=CIRC1.NUMHITS/2
WHILE/V1<V2
ASSIGN/ODD_PT=CIRC1.HIT[V3[V1]].XYZ......................................here V3 is the previous array
ASSIGN/ODD_V=CIRC1.HIT[V3[V1]].IJK
F1 =GENERIC/POINT,DEPENDENT,CARTESIAN,$
NOM/XYZ,<ODD_PT.X,ODD_PT.Y,ODD_PT.Z>,$
MEAS/XYZ,<ODD_PT.X,ODD_PT.Y,ODD_PT.Z>,$
NOM/IJK,<ODD_V.I,ODD_V.J,ODD_V.K>,$
MEAS/IJK,<ODD_V.I,ODD_V.J,ODD_V.K>
ASSIGN/V1=V1+1
END WHILE



Just remember that you can do a lot of things with assignments, and it's very funny, like those examples that I give and which are totally unusefull !

You can download this, then look at the "using variable" chapter, even if it's in english...
ftp://ftp.wilcoxassoc.com/docs/v2011manual/eng_pcdmis_v2011_core_manual_pdf.zip

You can do a lot of assignments, calculations, coordinates retrieval, statements...

ASSIGN/V1=5 just gives "5" to V1 value
ASSIGN/V2=ARRAY(1,3,5,7) creates an array of 4 values in which ASSIGN/V3=V2[2] gives the second value of V2 (here 3)

If you want to create an array of odd numbers, you can do it in a loop like :
ASSIGN/V1=1
ASSIGN/V2=1
DO/
ASSIGN/V3[V2]=V1
ASSIGN/V1=V1+2
ASSIGN/V2=V2+1
UNTIL/V2>100

This array could be used to choose only one hit out of two in a feature :
ASSIGN/V1=1
ASSIGN/V2=CIRC1.NUMHITS/2
WHILE/V1<V2
ASSIGN/ODD_PT=CIRC1.HIT[V3[V1]].XYZ......................................here V3 is the previous array
ASSIGN/ODD_V=CIRC1.HIT[V3[V1]].IJK
F1 =GENERIC/POINT,DEPENDENT,CARTESIAN,$
NOM/XYZ,<ODD_PT.X,ODD_PT.Y,ODD_PT.Z>,$
MEAS/XYZ,<ODD_PT.X,ODD_PT.Y,ODD_PT.Z>,$
NOM/IJK,<ODD_V.I,ODD_V.J,ODD_V.K>,$
MEAS/IJK,<ODD_V.I,ODD_V.J,ODD_V.K>
ASSIGN/V1=V1+1
END WHILE



Just remember that you can do a lot of things with assignments, and it's very funny, like those examples that I give and which are totally unusefull !