Use the Machine Settings dialog-box to change the Machine Speed, Number-of-Steps in a machine-cycle, and the edit the engineering Units.
See Edit menu > Machine Settings
• | Click Edit menu > Machine-Settings |
• | Click Edit toolbar ![]() |
Machine-Settings
![]() Cycling Parameters |
Cycles ∕ Min: See also Note 1 RPM: Revolutions per Minute of the Machine. MotionDesigner reads this parameter. Note: Time ∕ Cycle - calculate as: 60 ∕ (Cycle ∕ min) Number-of-Steps: [See also Note 4] The number of increments for cycle one machine-cycle. |
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![]() Engineering Units |
See also Note 3
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Note 1: Cycles ∕ Min does not change the 'animation-speed'. Change the 'animation-speed' with the Animation Speed Slider. Note 2: To calculate and export cam points for cam manufacture, see Cam-Coordinates dialog-box. Note 3: We do not display the dimensional units in the graphic-area. A length dimension that is 100 becomes 3.94 when you change from mm to inches. An angular dimension that is 100 becomes 1.75 when you change from degrees to radians. Note 4: Warnings: The model is calculated for each step of the machine-cycle.
A 'high' value (the actual 'high' value depends on the complexity of the model) will slow the editing of complex models. Make 'high' (greater than 360) when you want to view, in the graphic-area, more points in a graph, facets along a trace-point, complex cams. In all cases, the model does not become more precise with more steps. To precisely set the model at a particular position, use the MMA. |