[mfg-smartcam] More on Cad to Cam mm 2 inch

[Jeff]

Duuuuu Gee Tennesee!  I'm sorry, I miss understood what you were talking about but, after reading it over now I understand. The geometry file that you import from it's source has trailing characters more than 4 place's. I created a bogus file on AutoCAD with the precision set to 7 places and the macro did a great job of cleaning up the trailing numbers in SmartCAM. I need to go see Mr. Whoopie!   Chumley   ----- Original Message ----- From: Wepking, Bill W. To: Mfg-Smartcam (E-mail) 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 Landis Gardner -----Original Message----- From: Ray Machine Inc. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, June 12, 2003 4:46 PM To: SmartCam Forum Subject: Re: [mfg-smartcam]Cad to Cam Thanks Jeff   The macro worked perfectly     ----- Original Message ----- From: Jeff To: Smartcam User Group Sent: Wednesday, June 11, 2003 9:55 PM Subject: [mfg-smartcam]Cad to Cam One macro converts from metric to inch and the other converts from inch to metric.   ----- Original Message ----- From: Michael Senack To: Jeff ; Smartcam User Group Sent: Wednesday, June 11, 2003 4:19 PM Subject: RE: [mfg-smartcam]Cad to Cam Could you post the mm2inch.mcl?   -----Original Message----- From: Jeff [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, June 11, 2003 7:58 PM To: Smartcam User Group Subject: [mfg-smartcam]Cad to Cam   William,   Are you trying to convert the file from metric to inch Have you tried importing the file to SmartCAM then use the mm2inch.mcl to convert to inches?   Jeff      ----- Original Message ----- From: Michael Senack To: Ray Machine Inc. ; SmartCam Forum Sent: Wednesday, June 11, 2003 1:36 PM Subject: RE: [mfg-smartcam]Cad to Cam   Don't know whether or not the CAM Connection can convert on the fly. Never thought of checking into it because what I do in this scenario is import the drawing in as a metric process model. Keep this as a metric reference file for any future dimensional verification(s). Scale it to inches and save that as my working file.       -----Original Message----- From: Ray Machine Inc. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, June 11, 2003 3:40 PM To: SmartCam Forum Subject: [mfg-smartcam]Cad to Cam   Hi All,   I have an AutoCad drawing that is metric units. I want to convert to SmartCam with CAM Connection. Q: Can this file be converted to Standard units? Thanks William Ray