someone on the irc (me) said that when you start to enter a number it tells you if your in radius or diameter mode. If your in the wrong mode MDI to the mode you want.
JT On 5/3/2015 8:16 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: > Greetings; > > Someone on irc said touchoff gives a choice when you have entered the > first number. Not on 2.6.7, the only thing it says is radius, so I have > to keep a pocket calc, to do a / 2.0000 on the size the caliper reads > for the actual touchoff data entry. IOW, it takes radius inputs only. > Putting X in diameter mode changes nothing in re this. > > It seems to me I ought to be able to enter the diameter if I am running > in that mode, or the radius if running in that mode. But touch off, and > the dro which does follow the touch off if you enter radius,it almost > works. > > I say almost, but the ending small end diameter is well oversized. > The scale factor on this x axis has been tested and verified several > times. But starting at 38mm diameter, and ending at 22.0000mm in > diameter, the one cut I did today without it crashing, using a > > while [#<_x_tmp> gt #<_x_end>] (where #<_x_end> = 22.000000mm) > > ended normlly at about 25.75mm in diameter, with half the expected 3/4" a > foot taper. > > So somethings all aglay. And fighting with a touchoff that demands a > radius regardless of the G7/G8 mode set is a prime distraction as it > derails any train of analytical thought one might have when looking for > the real problem. Frustrating even. > > Thanks Guys. > > Cheers, Gene Heskett ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ One dashboard for servers and applications across Physical-Virtual-Cloud Widest out-of-the-box monitoring support with 50+ applications Performance metrics, stats and reports that give you Actionable Insights Deep dive visibility with transaction tracing using APM Insight. http://ad.doubleclick.net/ddm/clk/290420510;117567292;y _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
