Hole Table V18

Tim Neumann

I'm looking for a way to generate a table showing XY coordinates of hole centers relative to a chosen origin. I've googled a bit and couldn't find anything similar as far as a lisp routine but I'm sure they are out there. Attached is an image showing what did the "old school" method - manually of course! Any of you programmers have any tips to share?

Robert

Hello Tim,

What you want to do sounds possible. You would need to loop through all the holes and check the center point of the holes against a specified base point. Then you use that to calculate the relative coordinates of the holes. You can then write those coordinates to a table.
Could be a fun project Do you have experience with lisp or vba?

Tim Neumann

Hi Robert,

No experience I'm afraid. Figured this sort of thing has been done before with lisp, I'll keep looking and if I find something will post here.

Robert

@Tim Neumann

My apologies I though you wanted to build it yourself, ill give it a try tomorrow. When I have a working script ill post it in this thread.

Terry Dotson

@Tim Neumann said:
... generate a table showing XY coordinates of hole centers relative to a chosen origin.

Take a look at DotSoft's MechLite, it generates (and updates) a Hole Chart using coordinates relative to the UCS (your chosen origin).