Min.&max. rad.

[Rakesh]

Hi everybody

Is anyway we can find out min rad in the whole file or in window selection, which can help us to find smallest dia. end mill reqd to machine the part. I mean if there is any C-hook which anaylse the part and give you min. rad.

[Chao]

Analyze - Suefaces - Curvatures...

[robk]

You could run a hole table c-hook and get a list of all diamaters (as long as they're closed arcs) in the file.

[Rakesh]

Hole table, c-hook,I check this, is good option and thanks for this inf. But in this particular case I am looking for the option which help in finding the min and max rad in the pockets so I can know which min dia. of the end mill I have to use.

I know this will save the time of the many people

Please comment

[robk]

There is a scanarcs c-hook in V9... It won't work in X (I just tried). Different idea then the other c-hook, but you could make it work to figure out what the smallest radii in the file is. It will select open radiuses also. Sorry that I can't help you now, but it's quitting time here.

[Ashan]

If it is surface use analyze dinamic

It will give

[Rakesh]

It is 2D DRW.

[Jim ..]

You can do this In Mcam 9 Analyze- Surface - Curvature - Surfaces- then window the hole lot and press "DONE" then press "Doit" easy. Why the hell they haven't got this GREAT feature in Mcam X

is beyond me. I want it back please.

[Roger Martin from CNC Software]

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is any C-hook which anaylse the part and give you min. rad.

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I don't know of one, so I made one.

 

On the user FTP site in the C-hooks folder you'll find ArcSize.ZIP

It reports on the Min/Max Radius found by looking at all the Arcs in the current geometry selection set. It only looks at 2D arcs, not splines or surfaces, etc.

 

No warranty, expressed or implied is made for the usefulness of this utility.

Though it did appear to report proper information in my (limited) testing.

[Rakesh]

I try this c-hook,It work.

Only limitation in this c-hook is, that it analyse all the arc. It will be better if it give only internal arcs which will helpful to decide end mill size. If I fillet the corners like .005 to break the burrs it taking those radius also. If it pick internal arcs that will be better. For deburring purpose is the external arc.

If you please change this c-hook to pick only the internal arcs that will be awsome.

thanks in advance

[Jim ..]

Rakesh why don't you just losd the part into Mcam9 and test for Curvature, at least you'll have your anwser, for programming in McamX.

[Steve Zirtzman]

Roger,

Thank you for this new C-hook, I think it will be a useful tool. I also use your Allresult C-hook every day. Are there any others you have made that I have missed?

[Rakesh]

Hi Roger

Can you explain about the ALLresult C-hook

[Guest]

Rakesh,

 

When you perform a translate or someother function that you have to pick geometry for and then need to do something with the same geometry again, the all-result c-chook will repick all resulting geometry without having to pick it all again.

 

Install it a try it, you'll see very quickly what it does.