Converting Imperial to Metric

[Brendan O' Regan]

We have a Mazak VTC-200B but cannot do any Imperial work on it till we upgrade it, which I wont have for month but i have a urgent job.

Can i convert a Imperial Mastercam file with toolpaths to Metric or do i have to redraw it in metric and apply new toolpaths.

Thanks.

Brendan

Faul Precision Engineering,

Ballyvourney,

Macroom,

Co. Cork,

Ireland

[Keith Graydon]

Hi,

you can try to ReScale XYZ and then Re-Gen all the toolpaths.

Look under /main/Xform/ScaleXYZ

Im sorry but I don't knoe the conversion/Scale factor.

HTH

-Keith

[Keith Graydon]

Hi,

you can try to ReScale XYZ and then Re-Gen all the toolpaths.

Look under /main/Xform/ScaleXYZ

Im sorry but I don't knoe the conversion/Scale factor.

HTH

-Keith

[Toby]

Ruffmut,

use X-form/Scale/Window/

scale about the origin.

When the scale box appears make sure to toggle to "move" and 1 step.

Put in the scale box 1*25.4 then ok.

This will scale all geometry to metric.]

Regen all toolpaths and enjoy.

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Toby Baughman

Programming Supervisor

Saint Gobain Semicon Group Inc.

Vs8.1.1 LvL3 Mill + solids

[gstephens]

That's 1/25.4

[Toby]

Gstephens,

He asked to scale it up to Metric not scale from Metric to english!

1/25.4 = metric-english

1*25.5 = english-metric

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[gstephens]

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[Brendan O' Regan]

Thanks Toby.

I was going from English to Metric. The value I used was 1*25.4 and it scaled it up perfect.

So thanks for all your help again

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Brendan aka ruffmut

Faul Precision Eng.

Ballyvourney,

Macroom,

Co. Cork,

Ireland.

[This message has been edited by ruffmut (edited 06-27-2001).]