rbnye@cup.portal.com (Robert Bruce Nye) (05/27/91)
We are getting constant requests for an ability to take CAD files
(specifically CATIA/CADAM) as input to our equipment. What our equipment must
do is interpret an action point on profiles in order to scan between them. I
have glanced at these requests and I must question the usefulness of them. Our
equipment (Ultrasonic inspection systems) needs to fly over a part with
coaxial transducers. This is not really a tool path geometry. The incidence
of the sound beam must be normal to the surface under test.
The questions I have are:
o Is there a package which we could use to decimate a drawing (e.g. aileron)
into two profiles (start and end point)?
o Is there an existing program which we could use to develop fly-by's at some
distance over the part? (It needs to be incorporatable(?) into our scan
software).
Thanks
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>>>>>>>>>> Be careful how you interpret the world, it IS like that. <<<<<<<<
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