I'm programming a part where I want to call a drill and go to a point (0,0,2), 2 inches above my part,

picking up my H offset code and approaching to a clearance plane.

Then I want to call a cycle in G98 and have the "I" value at .5 above the part and the R at -.50.

However...when I post the job, I get a G55 code in my output program. I want to remain in G54. I've got the same result in 2 different systems.

Why is this sequence changing my work coordinate system?

I'm just starting X2 and I can't even create a friggin line (sometimes)!

I select Line/Enpoints/Horizontal or Vertical.

Click..click. 2 Points...NO LINE! Any 2 points...

NO LINE! I created the original model yesterday. Created geometry no problem. Just like V9. Today...click click...NO LINE.

I must be doing something wrong or different from before. Can anybody help?

I'm looking for a practical use for the Dynamic poit craetion function. It seems to be just point approximation. I have a pardigm about defining geometry with accurate values.

Can anyone give me a simple explanation about Nurbs. (Non-uniform rational b-splines).?

What are they and what are they used for?

Thanks guys for multiple viewports providing i had a 3D rendering already. I was kind of looking at building a 3D view from the planar views.

How can I produce a 3 view drawing (top,side,front) and then show an

isometric view in a fourth position

on the same page?

Yes, it seems that I must already have a known point to drag the entity to. Because its multi directional, I can't seem to be able to assign a distance value to the drag.

I'm stuck in a parallel line paradigm. I think I'm looking for similar controlled results.

Can somebody give me an example of a practical use for the drag function?

How can I can easily and rapidly create accurate entitties? It seems like a long way or cumbersome way to make geometry.

Why do some entities become undeletable.

Am I inadvertently associating them with other geometry?

It seems if I delete some surrounding entities,

I can then delete the entities I want to, but I don't know what I did to link them.

As well I had some text that got broken into base elements and I had to delete it 1 line/arc at a time,(or by a window). How did this font lose it's text attribute?

Does anyone know what the curves are called

that represent a surface? In Catia they are called Isoparameters. Are they the same in MC?

Is there a way to reverse the surface direction of an already created surface? Or for that matter on a surface during it's creation? I'm usually working with ruled, lofted or drafted surfaces.

Thanks

CH

Is there a way to create a C-plane through a point normal to a curve? (Similar to normal to a line).

Does anyone know how to quickly create a

threaded hole representation in a solid?

Thanks

Camhead

Yes you're right Millturn. I forgot about the

arithmetic function.

Thanks for your patience.

I'm Catia based and I'm always looking for a parallel function in MC.

Thanks Millturn but that's not exactly what I was looking for.

Let's say I have only 1 line on my screen and I don't know the angle of it,(and I don't want to know the angle), I just want to create a line at 32 degrees relative to it.

It appears that Xform + Copy at 32 degrees will solve my problem.

However my quest was to find a similar solution within the Line + Polar function.

Create a line at 32 degrees to my existing line.

Thanks Mike:

That was too easy. If MC doesn't have a relative line creation function than it makes good sense to use the Xform.

Is there any way to create a line at an angle to an existing line.

The Line + Polar function only allows me to create angled lines with absolute values.

I'm trying to create a line through a point,

at an angle to an existing line.

The Line + Polar function only allows for absolute

angle callout. Is their a way to relate my new line to an existing one?