arc center list

[jmfrank]

Good Morning

 

I seem to remember in some previous version of Mastercam I could make a list of arc centers. In X9 I am not seeing that option. Am I missing this or am I not remembering correctly.

 

Matt

[Thad]

Are you looking for the hole table chook?

[jmfrank]

Humm forgot about the hole table chook. but that's not it.  Thought I could list hole Dia. and location. I might be confusing  this with NX or older UG.

 

Great idea there Thad

[Thad]

Just did a hole table on a sample part. Doesn't look it's what you need.

[Colin Gilchrist]

Hi Matt,

 

Try this:

 

1. Create > Point > Small Arcs. (This command has a Ribbon bar, with a "max radius" value. It is normally used to just create a point at the center of the arcs that are smaller than that value. Enter a large radius like 10.0 or 100.0 depending on the size of your arcs you want a report on.
2. Window the Arcs, and then press the green check mark. This creates a point at the center of each arc.
3. Now, do File > Save Some. Mastercam will prompt you to "select entities to save". Left-Click on the "Points Quickmask" to select all the points. Then press "End Selection". A dialog box will pop up. Change the "Save as type" to "ASCII", which outputs a .txt file. Name it "points" or whatever you want. When you finish the saving process, there will be a space-delimited text file with the XYZ coordinates of all the points you selected.

Hope that helps,

 

Colin

[ajmer]

What about creating ordinate dimensions

I think this is how to get to it

Create-->drafting-->dimension-->ordinate-->window

You can set it to create dims for only arc centers.

 

Not sure if this is what you want or not but an option.

[jmfrank]

Colin

 

That will work. Great thanks. Do you know of a way to make the saved (txt) file save to 3 place instead of 7 or 8  ?

 

-0.078 -0.081  this

 

-0.07849045 -0.081018  instead of this.

 

I'm hole popping so 7 or 8 place is not needed.

 

Thanks again.

 

Matt

[jmfrank]

ajmer

 

Not what I am looking for. However very useful. Its crazy that I have newer used that feature. (-->ordinate-->window). not sure I even noticed it before. 

 

Thanks for pointing this out.

 

Old dogs do learn new tricks.

 

Thanks Matt

[crazy^millman]

The Verisurf free tools with Auto Hole Axis will give you a report. Can make the circles and then use the all or only mask with the range option to decide how you want to work with the geometry.

[Colin Gilchrist]

For formatting the data, you'll have to use some tricks. The issue is that the points are created at a higher precision, due to the way the data is stored internally inside Mastercam.

 

Your best bet is to import the data into Excel. This can be done by choosing the "Data" tab on the ribbon bar, and choosing the "From text" option. That will let you select a ".txt" file. Then when you press "Import", there will be a second dialog box that pops up. This is for choosing the "delimiter", or the "way the data in columns is separated". Select the "Space" character as the delimiter, and Excel will put the numbers into their own column, separating the X, Y, and Z coordinates.

 

Once you've imported the list of points, and put each coordinate into a separate cell, just select all the cells, Right-Click, and choose "Format Cells". Pick the "Number" option, and then you can set the number of decimal places to 3 or 4 (or whatever you want).

 

Once you get the hang of this, its easy.

[jmfrank]

Colin

 

Worked like a charm. very good instructions.

 

Thanks     Matt

[Teh Bear without Brains kinda idiot]

cREATE FAKE DRILL OPERATION THAN POST IT

You will have list of your coords

I used it 25 years ago and use it now

Think simple

[jmfrank]

Bear

 

That is crazy simple. And I do like simple.

 

Thanks   Matt

[Teh Bear without Brains kinda idiot]

You are welcome

The other way is to :

on separate level draw on every needed arc center a point

now do file-.save some -.select your points  and save as Ascii with txt extention

open it with notepad

and you can make file merge with it with some other file too

BR

 Sorry ,Collin you were the first .My bad

[Colin Gilchrist]

No apologies necessary Alex. I like your solution as well. That's very simple, and doesn't require an external program (Excel). There are many ways to accomplish the same end goal. That's what I love about this forum. I'm always learning new tricks to add to my arsenal.