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Bill,
Have you looked at question 22 of your .smf in the
machine define file?
I have mine set to D3.3 for 3 place decimals and in
the .tmp file I have D3.4 setup for four place
when doing thread milling and
engraving.
Just wondering.
Jeff
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From: Wepking, Bill W.
Sent: Friday, June 13, 2003 6:40 AM
Subject: [mfg-smartcam] More on Cad to Cam mm 2 inch We do a lot of converting mm to inch
because engineering works in mm and the shop works in inches. We program
in inches so all cad geometry is converted. After running the mm2inch.mcl
I also run a macro I created that rounds off most of the lines and arcs to 4
places. All of our controls only except output to four places
so everything is rounded when it's output anyway. This
also makes it a little easier to review element data while programming and
snapping to locations.
Attached is the macro for rounding off
most lines and arcs. Anyone interested can try it and give me
feedback.
Note
that it currently only rounds off full and 90 degree arcs, all
unrounded arcs are put on layer 60 or 61. Lines that only have .0001
taper are also put on these layers, this is done because our
engineers sometimes make mistakes on start or end points and if a line
has .0001 taper it's probably an error.
Thanks in
advance Bill Wepking
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