How do you get data from a loop?

Hey everyone,

I'm still new and learning PC-DMIS. I want to learn more about looping and variables as I can see it being an important tool to make programming quicker.

So I have a round part and it has 12 tabs around it every 30 degrees. What I want is for it to loop around the part grabbing a point on the outer tab. After I want to construct a circle (best fit) and output the dia for my report.

How can I go about this?

So the code I have so far is this

V1         =LOOP/START,ID=YES,NUMBER=12,START=1,SKIP=,
              OFFSET:XAXIS=0,YAXIS=0,ZAXIS=0,ANGLE=30
OUTER-RAD-TAB_1  =FEAT/CONTACT/VECTOR POINT/DEFAULT,CARTESIAN
              THEO/<0,-7.546,-0.15>,<0,-1,0>
              ACTL/<0,-7.546,-0.15>,<0,-1,0>
              TARG/<0,-7.546,-0.15>,<0,-1,0>
              SNAP=NO
              SHOW FEATURE PARAMETERS=NO
              SHOW CONTACT PARAMETERS=YES
                AVOIDANCE MOVE=NO,DISTANCE=0
              SHOW HITS=NO
            LOOP/END

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NinjaBadger over 1 year ago

Looping in PC-Dmis is tricky (coming from other softwares, or other types of programming in general it's difficult to let go of this concept but it's never straightforward) -and I'm not one to say because something is difficult it shouldn't be done.

Looping programs (measuring multiple parts is okay) but whilst looping sections of a program as you are suggesting is possible, paste with pattern is the preferred method.

The same is true for subroutines, it's the passing of data back and forth that's prohibitive.
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NinjaBadger over 1 year ago

Looping in PC-Dmis is tricky (coming from other softwares, or other types of programming in general it's difficult to let go of this concept but it's never straightforward) -and I'm not one to say because something is difficult it shouldn't be done.

Looping programs (measuring multiple parts is okay) but whilst looping sections of a program as you are suggesting is possible, paste with pattern is the preferred method.

The same is true for subroutines, it's the passing of data back and forth that's prohibitive.
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