Constructed Cylinder Glitch from Scanned Cylinders

Hello. I created two auto-cylinders with 3 levels and as a Adaptive Cylinder Concentric Circle Scan. When you go into a constructed feature there is a plus sign with circle00-01-02. I created one cylinder from these two cylinders as there was a break in the bore that I had to specify two cylinders instead of just use one.

The glitch is the constructed cylinder I made shoots the points all the way down the part. Is this just a graphical glitch and it should work fine or can you not construct a cylinder from these circle00-01-02's? When I save and leave the program and go back, my constructed feature for datum e loses the features highlighted and I have to reselect it. For some reason cylinder 2 is in red but I executed it.

I had to go into the constructed feature and reselect the second cylinder as it was no longer highlighted. It doesn't make sense as some times both cylinders are in red.

I am programming this all offline. I'm unsure if it will work as I've never constructed a cylinder like this.

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0 Neil Challinor 7 months ago

Just use DAT_E_CYL_1.HIT[1..DAT_E_CYL_1.NUMHITS],DAT_E_CYL_2.HIT[1..DAT_E_CYL_2.NUMHITS] instead. That will construct a single cylinder from all of the hits of DAT_E_CYL_1 and DAT_E_CYL_2
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0 Alvin_A2 7 months ago in reply to Neil Challinor

Tried selecting the points and PC-DMIS crashed on me. Shocker! When I select DAT_E_CYL_1 it still pushes the points to the back of the part. I don't know if it will let me select individual hits because it is a scan.
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0 Neil Challinor 7 months ago in reply to Alvin_A2

You can change it directly in the edit window. As you, said, it will be very difficult to select all the hits from the dialog / graphics window.
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0 Alvin_A2 7 months ago in reply to Neil Challinor

How are you changing it in the edit window? It's not showing me the individual hits in the constructed feature. I tried selecting just cylinder 1 and 2 and they're highlighted but the edit window only shows cylinder 1....
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0 Alvin_A2 7 months ago in reply to Alvin_A2

My Cylinder graphically is pushed down the part.
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0 Lake Monster 7 months ago in reply to Alvin_A2

not in that window.

the edit window is where all the code is.

You need to type what Neil said above after CONSTR/
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0 Neil Challinor 7 months ago in reply to Alvin_A2

Alvin_A2 said:
How are you changing it in the edit window? It's not showing me the individual hits in the constructed feature. I tried selecting just cylinder 1 and 2 and they're highlighted but the edit window only shows cylinder 1....

Find your original constructed cylinder command...

Highlight the first DAT_E_CYL_1.ITEM[CIRCLE0] and change it by typing DAT_E_CYL_1.HIT[1..DAT_E_CYL_1.NUMHITS]. Then do the same for the second feature reference (typing DAT_E_CYL2.... this time), then delete the other feature references (highlight them and press delete, one at a time)

You should also change the construction type from BF to BFRE.
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0 Neil Challinor 7 months ago in reply to Alvin_A2

Alvin_A2 said:
How are you changing it in the edit window? It's not showing me the individual hits in the constructed feature. I tried selecting just cylinder 1 and 2 and they're highlighted but the edit window only shows cylinder 1....

Find your original constructed cylinder command...

Highlight the first DAT_E_CYL_1.ITEM[CIRCLE0] and change it by typing DAT_E_CYL_1.HIT[1..DAT_E_CYL_1.NUMHITS]. Then do the same for the second feature reference (typing DAT_E_CYL2.... this time), then delete the other feature references (highlight them and press delete, one at a time)

You should also change the construction type from BF to BFRE.
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0 Alvin_A2 7 months ago in reply to Neil Challinor

After another crash, I'm on a $4,000 laptop by the way, and I got the serialization error and it corrupted my main program. Fortunately the one of the backups saved my program. But I changed the edit to use the numhits. Thank you. I can't change it to BFRE as it messed up the alignment somehow even when I selected no for it to not update anything. I personally never use BFRE. The cylinder is still graphically pushed to the end of the part.

Thanks for all the help Neil. I will say I am glad I do not advocate for this software anymore. If anyone's in the hunt for a new software, Polyworks CNC CMM programming is quite good and it does not have the unreal issues like PC-DMIS can have. Plus, their customer service makes Hexagon look like a joke.

Thanks again
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0 Alvin_A2 7 months ago in reply to Alvin_A2

Actually, selecting the points did fix the graphical issue too as I updated it. Thanks again Neil.
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0 ArkansasBeeper 7 months ago in reply to Alvin_A2

Did someone say PolyWorks?
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