Good morning. My part has a cone (lets say it's a countersink). The print calls for a gage ball to be placed into the countersink, then the location of the top of the gage ball is to be measured. How would I replicate this in PC-DMIS? I've probed my cone, obviously. Now I'm stuck...I want to construct a sphere with a set diameter to mate with the countersink.
You can construct a circle where the gage ball would contact the cone and then use trigonometry to give you the sphere centre. This is some example code I created using the Hexblock training part which has a 90° cone (included angle) which is Ø15 where the cone intersects the top face. I'm simulating fitting a Ø13 gage ball into the cone.
CON1 =FEAT/CONTACT/CONE/DEFAULT,CARTESIAN,IN
THEO/<10,10,0>,<0,0,1>,90,-7,15
ACTL/<10,10,0>,<0,0,1>,90,-7,15
TARG/<10,10,0>,<0,0,1>
START ANG=0,END ANG=360
ANGLE VEC=<1,0,0>
SHOW FEATURE PARAMETERS=NO
SHOW CONTACT PARAMETERS=NO
CIR1 =FEAT/CIRCLE,CARTESIAN,IN,NO
THEO/<10,10,-2.904>,<0,0,1>,9.192
ACTL/<10,10,-2.904>,<0,0,1>,9.192
CONSTR/CIRCLE,CONE,CON1,SPHERE,13
ASSIGN/V1=(TAN(DEG2RAD(45))*CIR1.R)
F1 =GENERIC/SPHERE,DEPENDENT,CARTESIAN,OUT,$
NOM/XYZ,<CIR1.TX,CIR1.TY,CIR1.TZ+V1>,$
MEAS/XYZ,<CIR1.X,CIR1.Y,CIR1.Z+V1>,$
NOM/IJK,<0,0,1>,$
MEAS/IJK,<0,0,1>,$
RADIUS/13/2,13/2
If you need to measure to the top of the gage ball, just create a distance command with "Add Radius" selected.
It might be possible with the "construct circle from two lines/tangent lines". Scan a line on each side of the countersink, create a circle touching the lines with a set diameter. Workplane dependent.
It might be possible with the "construct circle from two lines/tangent lines". Scan a line on each side of the countersink, create a circle touching the lines with a set diameter. Workplane dependent.
What about two autolines? On opposing sides of the countersink. Then construct a tangent circle using the 2 lines, correct?
