It will group only partial arcs if you change FA=1 to FA=2. In fact, there
is a macro and icon that can be added to your icon bar that gives you the
ability to group (or remove from a group) all, only full, or only partial
arcs. It is on your cd in: TEC_SUPP\UTILITY\ARCGRP
Maybe an examination of this macro will aid you in accomplishing what
you're trying to do.
Hope this helps,
Chris Kocourek
CNC Department Manager
Flextronics Enclosures, Inc.
"Michael E.
Senack" To: kocourek chris@lms_na, MSenack
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com> Subject: Re: [mfg-smartcam] Selecting
arc(s) by a certain radius size
02/28/01
10:30 PM
I've tried this in the past and it only groups FULL arcs.
That works great for selecting holes from electronic data and assigning
various hole operations to them.
Working on a spiffy mcl for automating this...
What I'm looking for is PARTIAL arcs on a profile(s) that have been created
after using a wall offset
from an existing profile.
We have contour blanking dies made up of large arcs and lines defining
their profiles.
We then wall offset the die profile to make a new smaller profile by .008"
per side.
This new profile makes up the punch profile.
It is on this punch profile where you'll find .008" partial arc(s) joining
two pieces of
geometry from the die profile.
These arcs cause undercuts on our Agie wire machines.
These undercuts cause me lots of grief!
Maybe something with the ARC command and the AS=start angle and AE=end
angle
and the RA=radius
1) do a wall offset of the die profile
2) get a RESULT punch profile group
3) Run a mcl that has counter equal to the number of elements in the
grouped
profile and check the following...
If the element is an ARC
Check the element's RA to see IF it is .008" and IF the AS and AE are
NOT
the same then
change this element to another larger tool so that it is easily seen.
4) goto next element etc...
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Sent: Wednesday, February 28, 2001 2:24 PM
Subject: Re: [mfg-smartcam] Selecting arc(s) by a certain radius size
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> Try this little arc-grouping macro. It can be modified for full or
partial
> arcs. I have mine tied to a hot-key for quick usage.
>
> file://STRING:#MIN
> file://STRING:#MAX
> file://PROMPT[TX="What is the minimum radius you want to group?",
VN="#MIN",
> DV=0]
> file://PROMPT[TX="What is the maximum radius you want to group?",
VN="#MAX",
> DV=0]
> ARC_GRP[AR=0, FA=1, NR="#MIN", XR="#MAX"]
> #MIN=1000000
> #MAX=1000000
>
> Chris Kocourek
> CNC Department Manager
> Flextronics Enclosures, Inc.
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> Michael
> Senack To:
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> <MSenack@blou cc:
> nt.ca> Subject: [mfg-smartcam]
Selecting arc(s) by a certain radius size
>
> 02/28/01
> 03:37 PM
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> Is there some way to check a set of geometry for arc(s) with a certain
> radius size?
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>
> Regards,
>
> Michael Senack, X354
> Your local friendly neighborhood CNC Programmer
>
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