Let's say I have a 4 by 4 inch square and make a wall offset of three inches. If I made the wall offset on the outside, I would have a 7 inch square. On the inside the resultant square would be 1 inch. Now let's make the offset five inches instead of three, the outside square would be 9 inches, but the inside one would not exist. Zero elements. Magic.
-Aquilon ----- Original Message ----- From: "Michael Senack" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Pete Ruehle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, April 05, 2004 5:50 PM Subject: RE: [mfg-smartcam] Profile direction > 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] > ====================================================================== > ====================================================================== To find out more about this mailing list including how to unsubscribe, send the message "info mfg-smartcam" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ======================================================================
