Thanks! I'll give this a try. Just one question.
Exactly where did you find out that by offsetting a profile using a huge distance relative to your work the result group is CW if there is a result group? -----Original Message----- From: Pete Ruehle [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, April 05, 2004 6:07 PM To: Michael Senack; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [mfg-smartcam] Profile direction Michael, You can group the profile and use wall offset to check the direction. For example, do a group wall offset to the left with a huge distance relative to the work you do, then get the "result" group and check if there are any elements in the group. If there are, your direction is clockwise. I set DS=100. in mine because I never work on anything close to that size. So if the direction of the profile is CCW, no elements will be created by the wall offset. #OFFSETDIR=0 // Set direction to left GRP_WALL[SD=#OFFSETDIR, DS=100., ME=0, RP=1, LR=0, TA=0, AN=180] //Offset by 100 inches NAME_GRP[GN="PROFILE", RM=0] NEW_GRP[] // Clear current group GET_GRP[GN="RESULT", AR=0] // Get the 'Result' group IF(GRP(0)<1) // Check group size, if empty, direction is CCW GET_GRP[GN="PROFILE", AR=0] //get the original profile, and reverse direction GRP_REVERSE[RP=1] ELSE GRP_DELETE[] // If not empty, delete resulting elements. Direction is CW GET_GRP[GN="PROFILE", AR=0] Pete Thanks to Chris K > > >---- Original Message ---- >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: RE: [mfg-smartcam] Profile direction >Date: Mon, 5 Apr 2004 17:03:44 -0400 > >>When you insert after any element on a profile whether it be a line >or >>an arc, is there any macro >> >>command or method to determine the direction of the profile? >> >> >> >>Basically what I'm after is a method to check if a profile is going >in a >>CW direction, can you >> >>have SC find out that it is going in deed CW and then reverse it? >> >> >> >> >> >>Regards, >> >>Michael Senack >> >> >> >> >> >> ====================================================================== To find out more about this mailing list including how to unsubscribe, send the message "info mfg-smartcam" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ======================================================================
