jlink question - measure from a coordinate system to a given coordinate system?

[lylebeidler]

JLink application, WF3

I'm trying to assemble a light to a coordinate system origin. I know the
CSO has a given name, and I've traversed the assembly to find all the CSO's
that match that name. Now, however, I need to determine where the geometry
resides relative to the CSO of the top-level assembly. I tried using
GetTransform, but this gives the Transform matrix from the CSO to the CSO of
the part.



If that's not making sense, here's a description of my program:



Traverse the assembly, finding every instance of 1234.prt

For each instance of 1234.prt, get its location relative to the assembly CSO
& store it in a list, then delete it from the assembly.

For each record in the list, assemble 5678.prt in the same location in the
assembly (comment: if I didn't desire 5678.prt to be fully constrained, I
could stop here, but this leaves it packaged)

Traverse the assembly, finding all components with a CSO named "CS_LIGHT"

For each CS_LIGHT, get its location relative to the assembly CSO <==== this
is the step I'm having trouble with

If CS_LIGHT is in the correct location, constrain 5678.prt to this CSO.



Thanks in advance.

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Lyle Beidler
MGS Inc
178 Muddy Creek Church Rd
Denver PA 17517
717-336-7528
Fax 717-336-0514
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[bfrandsen]

Lyle,
The TransformVector() method in the transform3D interface can be used to go from CS0 to CS_LIGHT coordinates, but it is a bit tricky I agree. The Invert() method can be useful too for this task.

/Bjarne

[FV]

Hi all,

Lyle,

The proceedure should be as follows:

-aquire the transfrom from the the assembly csys feature in question 'CS0 ' toassembly 'default' coordinates, (in Pro/Toolkit you would use ProMatrixInit and feed it e1, e2,e3 and origin of ProGeomitemdata of coordinate system ProGeomitem), you have CS0-to-assembly transformation,

- invert transformation matrix, now you have assembly-to-CSO transformation,

-aquire the transformation of the component in question to the assembly 'default' coordinates, you have component-to-assembly transformation,

-aquire the XYZ location of a component CS_LIGHT feature expressed in component default coordinate system.

-transfer XYZ point to an assembly 'default' coordinate system (Pro/Toolkit function ProPointTrfEval) using component-to-assembly matrix, you have A-XYZ now,

-transfer A-XYZ to CSO coordinates by using assembly-to-CSO matrix, now you going to have C-XYZ, those three numbers represent the distance from CSO to CS_LIGHT measured along the axis of CSO coordinate system.

HIH.

Feliks.

In Reply to Lyle Beidler:

JLink application, WF3

I'm trying to assemble a light to a coordinate system origin. I know the
CSO has a given name, and I've traversed the assembly to find all the CSO's
that match that name. Now, however, I need to determine where the geometry
resides relative to the CSO of the top-level assembly. I tried using
GetTransform, but this gives the Transform matrix from the CSO to the CSO of
the part.



If that's not making sense, here's a description of my program:



Traverse the assembly, finding every instance of 1234.prt

For each instance of 1234.prt, get its location relative to the assembly CSO
& store it in a list, then delete it from the assembly.

For each record in the list, assemble 5678.prt in the same location in the
assembly (comment: if I didn't desire 5678.prt to be fully constrained, I
could stop here, but this leaves it packaged)

Traverse the assembly, finding all components with a CSO named "CS_LIGHT"

For each CS_LIGHT, get its location relative to the assembly CSO <==== this
is the step I'm having trouble with

If CS_LIGHT is in the correct location, constrain 5678.prt to this CSO.



Thanks in advance.

--



Lyle Beidler
MGS Inc
178 Muddy Creek Church Rd
Denver PA 17517
717-336-7528
Fax 717-336-0514
< -
< http://www.mgsincorporated.com