I'm using CENTCIR to find the location of the pin within my contour. I can find the center of the circle, but how can I evaluate the distance to the end of the pin?
Attached is a print snippet. How can I evaluate the 2.7753 and 1.5175 dimensions?
Hello. What i can see on the drawing the 1.5175 distance is to the tangency point. I did a test om a Cad model. You must insert your own values and element names.
!Calculate the distance to the centerpoint DIPNTAXI (NAM=DIS(1), CSY=CSY(1), EL1=CENT, EL2=AXI(1), CPY=DEF$DIS1)
!Calculate the distance to the tangentpoint DIPNTAXI (NAM=DIS(2), CSY=CSY(1), EL1=PNT2, EL2=AXI(2), CPY=DEF$DIS1)
!Add the radius off the centering ball XY=DIS(1).$A+50
!Run DFNELE just one time DFNELE (NAM=DIS(3), TYP=POI, CSY=CSY(1))
!Add the calculated realvalue to the element PUTVAL (OBJ=DIS(3), DSC=X, TYP=ELE, VAL=XY)
!Evaluate AddEva (NAM=DIS(3), EDT=N)
Hope this helps
That does help to find the distance to the point of tangency. Thank you.
The distance from the edge to the POT is 1.5136. The distance to the end of the pin is 1.5175. I'm trying to figure out the best way to add the pin radius (.175) to the center distance then evaluate.
Hello. What i can see on the drawing the 1.5175 distance is to the tangency point. I did a test om a Cad model. You must insert your own values and element names.
!Calculate the distance to the centerpoint DIPNTAXI (NAM=DIS(1), CSY=CSY(1), EL1=CENT, EL2=AXI(1), CPY=DEF$DIS1)
!Calculate the distance to the tangentpoint DIPNTAXI (NAM=DIS(2), CSY=CSY(1), EL1=PNT2, EL2=AXI(2), CPY=DEF$DIS1)
!Add the radius off the centering ball XY=DIS(1).$A+50
!Run DFNELE just one time DFNELE (NAM=DIS(3), TYP=POI, CSY=CSY(1))
!Add the calculated realvalue to the element PUTVAL (OBJ=DIS(3), DSC=X, TYP=ELE, VAL=XY)
!Evaluate AddEva (NAM=DIS(3), EDT=N)
Hope this helps
That does help to find the distance to the point of tangency. Thank you.
The distance from the edge to the POT is 1.5136. The distance to the end of the pin is 1.5175. I'm trying to figure out the best way to add the pin radius (.175) to the center distance then evaluate.
