What’s the easiest way to extract points and report locations from an auto circle in PCDmis 2017r2?

I have a 22” auto-circle with 32 hits and I need to report all 32 hits individually with x,y locations. I know in 2018 they added a “ to hits “ toggle and in 2020r2 and later versions you can grab points from auto features very easily but I don’t have access to those at the moment and I’ve only been using 2017 for a couple of months. Any help is appreciated.

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0 WilliamL 5 months ago

You can do each .HIT of a circle in a Location report command

CR1        =FEAT/CONTACT/CIRCLE/DEFAULT,CARTESIAN,IN,LEAST_SQR
            THEO/<0,0,0>,<0,0,1>,15.18
            ACTL/<0,0,0>,<0,0,1>,15.18
            TARG/<0,0,0>,<0,0,1>
            START ANG=0,END ANG=360
            ANGLE VEC=<1,0,0>
            DIRECTION=CCW
            SHOW FEATURE PARAMETERS=NO
            SHOW CONTACT PARAMETERS=NO
DIM LOC1= LOCATION OF POINT CR1.HIT[1]  UNITS=IN ,$
GRAPH=OFF  TEXT=OFF  MULT=10.00  OUTPUT=BOTH  HALF ANGLE=NO
AX       MEAS    NOMINAL       +TOL       -TOL        DEV     OUTTOL
X       7.5900     7.5900     0.0004     0.0004     0.0000     0.0000 ----#----
Y       0.0000     0.0000     0.0004     0.0004     0.0000     0.0000 ----#----
Z      -0.0500    -0.0500     0.0004     0.0004     0.0000     0.0000 ----#----
END OF DIMENSION LOC1
DIM LOC2= LOCATION OF POINT CR1.HIT[2]  UNITS=IN ,$
GRAPH=OFF  TEXT=OFF  MULT=10.00  OUTPUT=BOTH  HALF ANGLE=NO
AX       MEAS    NOMINAL       +TOL       -TOL        DEV     OUTTOL
X       6.5731     6.5731     0.0004     0.0004     0.0000     0.0000 ----#----
Y       3.7950     3.7950     0.0004     0.0004     0.0000     0.0000 ----#----
Z      -0.0500    -0.0500     0.0004     0.0004     0.0000     0.0000 ----#----
END OF DIMENSION LOC2
DIM LOC3= LOCATION OF POINT CR1.HIT[3]  UNITS=IN ,$
GRAPH=OFF  TEXT=OFF  MULT=10.00  OUTPUT=BOTH  HALF ANGLE=NO
AX       MEAS    NOMINAL       +TOL       -TOL        DEV     OUTTOL
X       3.7950     3.7950     0.0004     0.0004     0.0000     0.0000 ----#----
Y       6.5731     6.5731     0.0004     0.0004     0.0000     0.0000 ----#----
Z      -0.0500    -0.0500     0.0004     0.0004     0.0000     0.0000 ----#----
END OF DIMENSION LOC3

I am not familiar with 2017, so if this does not work, I apologize.

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0 WilliamL 5 months ago

You can do each .HIT of a circle in a Location report command

CR1        =FEAT/CONTACT/CIRCLE/DEFAULT,CARTESIAN,IN,LEAST_SQR
            THEO/<0,0,0>,<0,0,1>,15.18
            ACTL/<0,0,0>,<0,0,1>,15.18
            TARG/<0,0,0>,<0,0,1>
            START ANG=0,END ANG=360
            ANGLE VEC=<1,0,0>
            DIRECTION=CCW
            SHOW FEATURE PARAMETERS=NO
            SHOW CONTACT PARAMETERS=NO
DIM LOC1= LOCATION OF POINT CR1.HIT[1]  UNITS=IN ,$
GRAPH=OFF  TEXT=OFF  MULT=10.00  OUTPUT=BOTH  HALF ANGLE=NO
AX       MEAS    NOMINAL       +TOL       -TOL        DEV     OUTTOL
X       7.5900     7.5900     0.0004     0.0004     0.0000     0.0000 ----#----
Y       0.0000     0.0000     0.0004     0.0004     0.0000     0.0000 ----#----
Z      -0.0500    -0.0500     0.0004     0.0004     0.0000     0.0000 ----#----
END OF DIMENSION LOC1
DIM LOC2= LOCATION OF POINT CR1.HIT[2]  UNITS=IN ,$
GRAPH=OFF  TEXT=OFF  MULT=10.00  OUTPUT=BOTH  HALF ANGLE=NO
AX       MEAS    NOMINAL       +TOL       -TOL        DEV     OUTTOL
X       6.5731     6.5731     0.0004     0.0004     0.0000     0.0000 ----#----
Y       3.7950     3.7950     0.0004     0.0004     0.0000     0.0000 ----#----
Z      -0.0500    -0.0500     0.0004     0.0004     0.0000     0.0000 ----#----
END OF DIMENSION LOC2
DIM LOC3= LOCATION OF POINT CR1.HIT[3]  UNITS=IN ,$
GRAPH=OFF  TEXT=OFF  MULT=10.00  OUTPUT=BOTH  HALF ANGLE=NO
AX       MEAS    NOMINAL       +TOL       -TOL        DEV     OUTTOL
X       3.7950     3.7950     0.0004     0.0004     0.0000     0.0000 ----#----
Y       6.5731     6.5731     0.0004     0.0004     0.0000     0.0000 ----#----
Z      -0.0500    -0.0500     0.0004     0.0004     0.0000     0.0000 ----#----
END OF DIMENSION LOC3

I am not familiar with 2017, so if this does not work, I apologize.

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0 Matthew D. Hoedeman 5 months ago in reply to WilliamL

does that populate the dim with the correct nominal for each hit?
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0 WilliamL 5 months ago in reply to Matthew D. Hoedeman

Yes it does, we do this type of reporting on occasion for the tool makers for modifying molds here, usually 36 pts, most we have done is 120.
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0 RobOntario 5 months ago in reply to Matthew D. Hoedeman

Yes. We get hits from cylinder, then report hits T as an alternation of a profile.
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0 Malgorzata 5 months ago in reply to WilliamL

WilliamL , does it work with a plane too?
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0 WilliamL 5 months ago in reply to Malgorzata

Yes it should work for everything as long as you can do ".HIT[X]". If you are needing hit location from a plane, example PLN3 you would just do PLN3.HIT[1] and select the desired location data in dimension command window.

PLN3       =FEAT/CONTACT/PLANE/DEFAULT,CARTESIAN,TRIANGLE,LEAST_SQR
            THEO/<0,0,0>,<0,0,1>
            ACTL/<0,0,0>,<0,0,1>
            TARG/<0,0,0>,<0,0,1>
            ANGLE VEC=<1,0,0>,RADIAL
            SHOW FEATURE PARAMETERS=NO
            SHOW CONTACT PARAMETERS=NO
DIM LOC1= LOCATION OF POINT PLN3.HIT[1]  UNITS=IN ,$
GRAPH=OFF  TEXT=OFF  MULT=10.00  OUTPUT=BOTH  HALF ANGLE=NO
AX       MEAS    NOMINAL       +TOL       -TOL        DEV     OUTTOL
X       1.0000     1.0000     0.0000     0.0000     0.0000     0.0000 #--------
Y       0.0000     0.0000     0.0000     0.0000     0.0000     0.0000 #--------
Z       0.0000     0.0000     0.0000     0.0000     0.0000     0.0000 #--------
END OF DIMENSION LOC1
DIM LOC2= LOCATION OF POINT PLN3.HIT[2]  UNITS=IN ,$
GRAPH=OFF  TEXT=OFF  MULT=10.00  OUTPUT=BOTH  HALF ANGLE=NO
AX       MEAS    NOMINAL       +TOL       -TOL        DEV     OUTTOL
X      -0.5000    -0.5000     0.0000     0.0000     0.0000     0.0000 #--------
Y       0.8660     0.8660     0.0000     0.0000     0.0000     0.0000 #--------
Z       0.0000     0.0000     0.0000     0.0000     0.0000     0.0000 #--------
END OF DIMENSION LOC2
DIM LOC3= LOCATION OF POINT PLN3.HIT[3]  UNITS=IN ,$
GRAPH=OFF  TEXT=OFF  MULT=10.00  OUTPUT=BOTH  HALF ANGLE=NO
AX       MEAS    NOMINAL       +TOL       -TOL        DEV     OUTTOL
X      -0.5000    -0.5000     0.0000     0.0000     0.0000     0.0000 #--------
Y      -0.8660    -0.8660     0.0000     0.0000     0.0000     0.0000 #--------
Z       0.0000     0.0000     0.0000     0.0000     0.0000     0.0000 #--------
END OF DIMENSION LOC3