John, John, John...
I can't thank you enough for the new toys you've shown us.
I did a little testing on your undocumented INTPT[] command and have
discovered it's purpose and at least some of its syntax. The command is
probably called "Intersection Points". The command creates points using the
active insert properties at all intersections of 2 selected elements.
It appears to be primarily a 2D function, using the end point of the first
selected element to establish the Z level of all points created. I got odd
results when the 2 selected elements were not on the same plane.
The function also appears to be limited to intersections between lines,
arcs or a combination of a line and an arc.
The syntax I've determined so far is as follows:
INTPT[E1=$$, E2=$$]
E1 = First element (required)
Default: None
E2 = Second element (required)
Default: None
I have tried to guess at additional modifiers, such as to control at which
intersection(s) points are to be created, but have not been successful. If
anyone else in the group finds additional functions or restrictions please
let the rest of us know.
John, do you have any other little orphan commands tucked away that you are
willing to share with us?
Thanks again.
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Fred Lauzus, CAM Programming Coordinator
High Steel Structures, Incorporated
mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.highsteel.com
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-----Original Message-----
From: John Gent [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, June 28, 2000 5:11 PM
To: 'SmartCam Forum'
Subject: [mfg-smartcam] Undocumented Macro commands
Folks,
Last week I had sent a personal email to one of you but while I was in
Milford
my email got hosed so I don't know who it was.
Anyway, it was about undocumented macro commands ...
First an explanation about why the heck they'd be undocumented in the first
place. After SmartCAM builds a series of thousands of tests would be
executed
using macros to drive them. These tests would run in the middle of the night
and, hopefully, when I would arrive at work the next morning they would be
complete and I could assess the builds health before the development staff
would
arrive (as some of you know, I'm an early bird).
First problem ... an OK/Cancel dialog appears and waits all night for me to
push
a button. Thus ... AUTO_ANSWER[] was created. It was found that this could
be
useful to users in general, so we documented it.
Next was when it wasn't an error that AUTO_ANSWER[] could fix, like fatal
errors
that still required a button push (every one taking notes?), so we came up
with
AUTO_ABORT[ABORT="integer"]. 0=off, 1=on. This simply kills the session if
something goes very haywire.
The other ones would probably not be very useful for you all, but I've seen
what
some of you guys can do with this stuff!
The following is used to reset paths that may have been set in the JOF or
the
INI file(s).
FPATH_SET[IN="string", FP="path_string"]
Where "string" can be "def", "jof", "smf" or "import".
def is a path for the current PM4, SH3 or SH2 files
jof is a path for the current JOF or JSF files
smf is a path for the the current code generator files and
import is the path for any current INTERNAL import files (not
CamConnections).
path_string is the drive:\path - no slash at the end
Ummm. There's GRAPHICS_ON[] and GRAPHICS_OFF[], I think this was mentioned
last
week.
There's also one called INTPT[] and I have no idea what this is for.
I pretty sure that's all of them. Hope it helps!
--
John Gent
Structural Dynamics Research Corporation
Americas Support Center - Eugene
The secret of life is nothing at all. - Gretchen Peters
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