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Can I loop this?

pernilla
Hi guys!

I'm on my last week before 4 weeks vacation and I feel great! Sunglasses

I've got this part that I'll be programming, and it's really something...
Not that complicated but it's large and it's got a whole bunch of small planes and edges inside, and the drawing states "Profile of any surface 0.8 ABC" (mm),
so I'll have to place points everywhere. It's kind of divided i two halves where the pattern is the same on the left vs right side. (Unfortunately I can't disclose the drawing document.)

So here's my question:
Can I use a loop to program left side, then move it to the right side and get all the points there too?

And would this work? 


V1 = LOOP/START, ID = YES, NUMBER = 2, START =1, SKIP =,
OFFSET: XAXIS = 0, YAXIS = 208.82, ZAXIS = 0, ANGLE = 0

[Place all my points here]

LOOP/END


And will all the points be getting unique element names, will I be able to see the second set of points on the CAD-model?

Have a great day everyone! Frog
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  • So the "Loop" command is cool and all, but it has its shortcomings.
    In this case, like others have mentioned, there's no way to effectively flip the axis over and rotate probe to mirror the measurement within a loop command.
    You could do it with a DO/WHILE or a DO/UNTIL command, but i honestly don't know how you'd flip corrds and vectors of each feature for the second iteration of the loop.
    Because I'd rather get the job done more expediently instead of making a project out of it...
    I'd simply program for one side,
    align to a midpoint or midline of the part
    highlight all the code. CTL+C
    then go into "define pattern" set "Flip x axis"
    then paste with pattern
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  • So the "Loop" command is cool and all, but it has its shortcomings.
    In this case, like others have mentioned, there's no way to effectively flip the axis over and rotate probe to mirror the measurement within a loop command.
    You could do it with a DO/WHILE or a DO/UNTIL command, but i honestly don't know how you'd flip corrds and vectors of each feature for the second iteration of the loop.
    Because I'd rather get the job done more expediently instead of making a project out of it...
    I'd simply program for one side,
    align to a midpoint or midline of the part
    highlight all the code. CTL+C
    then go into "define pattern" set "Flip x axis"
    then paste with pattern
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