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Perpendicular Distress

Flintstone
Good morning,

We are running a global silver machine with PCDMIS 2021 software. Today, we constructed an offset plane using auto feature vector points. We do this all the time. We also measured a cylinder, that is supposed to be perpendicular to the offset plane. When we asked for the perpendicularity of the offset plane to the cylinder in legacy, it told us the perpendicularity was perfect, all zeros. Obviously it wasn't but that's what the reports said. We tried to ask for the perpendicularity of the offset plane to the cylinder in geotol, and the machine wouldn't let us select the offset plane. It would let us select the cylinder, and report perpendicularity to the offset plane. I know, I know, we have done this successfully before. We must have finger fumbled something. Some setting somewhere. Any suggestions?

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    The reason you get zeros with legacy is because offset planes do not have any hits. You would see the same for other constructed features such as mid-planes for example. This is also the reason why the Geometric Tolerance command will not let you dimension it. The difference is that with legacy, there is no error checking or warning, so it lets you do it but gives an incorrect answer.
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    The reason you get zeros with legacy is because offset planes do not have any hits. You would see the same for other constructed features such as mid-planes for example. This is also the reason why the Geometric Tolerance command will not let you dimension it. The difference is that with legacy, there is no error checking or warning, so it lets you do it but gives an incorrect answer.
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